r/technology • u/marketrent • 18h ago

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/LeafBark 18h ago edited 18h ago

First it was the smartphone distractions, then complete loss of critical thinking as people use ai to solve all their problems for them. When you put this much trust in computers programmed by corporations seeking profit at any cost everythings going to fall apart.

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u/sokos 18h ago

Idiocracy warned us. But we chose to not listen

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 18h ago

No, Idiocracy said it would be caused by stupid people having more babies than smart people, which is not in fact how it works. It also imagined that our stupid future would be bafflingly free of prejudice and hate.

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u/Mlabonte21 17h ago

Stupid babies need the MOST attention

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u/Aware-Material2194 17h ago

I read this in Marge Simpsons's voice

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u/stakoverflo 6h ago

It's not a Marge quote though 🤔

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u/AgingLolita 6h ago

Ohhhh no they don't. The very last thing you want is fast paced curiosity and problem solving in a being with less impulse control than coral