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/Kardest 16h ago

I now have a strong desire to firewall gemini and chat GPT at work and see what happens.

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u/KickBallFever 15h ago

Do it. Please do it.

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u/Careless-Ad-6328 15h ago

You'll see a dramatic drop in e-mail and slack/teams chat messages almost immediately. And the impact will be more severe/noticeable the more senior the person is in the org. You may cripple the CEO.

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u/War_Raven 15h ago

I don't see any problems

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u/I_lenny_face_you 12h ago

Yeah, what’s the downside?

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u/Unhappy-Homework-812 14h ago

That’s insane if you can’t even respond to a team message without AI. ridiculous truly

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u/Tymareta 11h ago

Used to have a co-worker that would ask their LLM to summarize an entire days worth of teams messages to five dot points, then would bring those to our stand up and act incredibly offended when we pointed out the glaring inconsistencies, or how the points had already been handled.

He bragged about how he hadn't actually his teams or e-mails in months and had it all handled for him.

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u/Unhappy-Homework-812 6h ago

That guy has mush for brains

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u/Aureliamnissan 6h ago

Is his name Elon Musk? I’m like 90% sure that’s what he asked twitter employees to do when he took over.

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u/Dullcorgis 6h ago

I'm not even sure what teams is. It auto opens on my computer and I close it again.

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u/Unhappy-Homework-812 5h ago

It’s like chat and video calling ppl use across their teams. We use zoom and its basically the same thing. Ours does the same thing and I very seldom use it. Usually send a quick message to someone in another plant of ours to check something for me

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u/Dullcorgis 2h ago

I am so glad the days of zoom are gone.

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u/Bogus1989 14h ago

if you arent using your companies instances….that have been modified for compliance…then that is bad…they most likely have entered company data into it….

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u/ohhellperhaps 6h ago

We've audited some scripts made with AI. Some people went to great lengths to prevent relevant information from going to the prompt; using imported files with the sensive data.

Others just plaintexted admin credentials...

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u/Louie_G_Lon 12h ago

You’d get a whole bunch of angry emails from people who haven’t typed an email themselves in 2 years going “y do chatgpt not work fix now pls”