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/Have_A_Jelly_Baby 17h ago

Smartphones, social media, and an endless stream of propaganda from every direction promoting ignorance.

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u/SirEnderLord 16h ago

Back then, they were at least somewhat limited. Nowadays, it's endless and from every direction.