Just to be clear, Gen Z are not teens. It only takes one teen whose recent rise in popularity is attributed to adept AI use to get the trend to spread like wildfire.
I'd imagine smartphone restrictions at home and school may also have something to do with it.
It's not astonishing at all to me. It works poorly, yet businesses are trying to shove it in their faces at every opportunity. And on top of that, they get to listen to rich sociopaths talk about how they won't have jobs because of these AI tools. Why wouldn't they view it negatively? They don't have even a single reason to be positive on it.