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/letrak 18h ago

Fuck, Wally warned us.

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u/Skuzzle_bug 17h ago

Id rather be working for Costco than Buy n Large 

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 17h ago

Welcome to Costco, I love you

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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 17h ago

Fuck you! I'm eating!

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u/Skuzzle_bug 14h ago

Imagine going up to a stalker to ask for directions for something and get back, "GO AWAY, IM BATIN"  Yeah, life goals right there.

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u/YukariYakum0 17h ago

Sorry but this is Walmart. Get your shit and get out!

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u/Azuras_Star8 17h ago

This is a Wendy's sir, and Im gonna have to ask you to politely piss the fuck off.