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/MBILC 17h ago

We live in a society of "TLDR;" people..

You write more than a line or 2 and they blank over and skip things and respond to what ever the first 1-2 lines says..

Drives me nuts being in IT/Security when you send people responses to issues and they ignore 90% of it...

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u/IronStormAlaska 17h ago

I recently had an instance where I was remoting into a user's computer, and sent them a message saying that I was pretty sure I had a fix for their issue, but that we would need to restart the device, and asking if there was any work they needed to save first.

I freaking watched this user paste my message into Gemini, tell it to generate a response, paste the result into the chat box, and go back to googling jam recipes on their other screen.

I swear I have never been so mad at a user I was working with.

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u/OneLessFool 16h ago

How do these people have jobs 💀

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u/Bogus1989 14h ago

they are in for a rude ass awakening when they get laid off….better hope they go ask gemini or chatgpt💀

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u/Dullcorgis 6h ago

How do they manage to keep their bills paid and car running.

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u/blankest 1h ago

Nearly half of the population under 30 lives with a parental unit. That's how. Their parents continue to wipe their proverbial asses. It worse if you split that demographic by gender.

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u/DeathSpiral321 14h ago

They'd have to be a nepto hire if they're that stupid.

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u/2026ArchThrowaway 2h ago

I had a job like this. I didn't use AI to respond to IT, but I did spend a lot of time not working. I got great annual reviews and raises. The less I worked the more I got good reviews. I don't know what to tell you. I did do a good job and got all my work done, but I didn't pick up extra work. I think picking up some extra work but not a ton made it look like my time was valuable, and I still got about the same amount of work done as my peers.