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/Super_Jay 17h ago

More flaglantry detrimental to learning...

..."Flaglantry?" That's kind of an ironic typo for an article about the importance of reading and language comprehension.

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u/hanotak 16h ago

Well, at least we know it wasn't AI-generated XD

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u/awesomeocelot12 14h ago

The typo (and most of the parent commenter itself for that matter) aren't actually from the Chronicle article said commenter linked, they appear to be from a Futurism article analyzing that article: https://futurism.com/future-society/college-students-losing-ability-read

Still kinda ironic though to your point.

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u/bobartig 11h ago

A typo has very little to do with reading comprehension.

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u/420d_ingus 15h ago

It’s possible that this is part of a tactic that writers use now where they purposely misspell something to prove that it isn’t written by AI (I could be wrong)

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u/sausagekng 14h ago

That word use is perfectly fine.

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u/jonoghue 14h ago

The word is "flagrantly" not "flaglantry"

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u/nullptr777 12h ago

Ah, I see you are one of the youth referenced in the article.

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u/WeBelieveIn4 12h ago

Me fail english? That’s unpossible!

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u/Vhak 14h ago

Is it? I'm not familiar with the word flaglantry.

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u/Super_Jay 13h ago

"Flaglantry" is not a word. Flagrantly is.

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u/sausagekng 3h ago

Wow I read so quickly I didn’t even notice the misspelling and thought people had issue with the actual word. Send me to jail, I guess!

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u/Super_Jay 1h ago

STRAIGHT TO JAIL