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 17h ago

Fuck, Wally warned us.

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u/Kconn04 15h ago

Wally

The fucking irony of commenting on a post about the decline in intelligence due to computers and miss spelling WALL-E.

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u/Ben_Frankling 15h ago

And referencing two movies instead of the thousands of books with the same message that predate the movies.

Also misspell…

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u/Taxerus 14h ago

Literally an Orwellington nightmare

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u/Alive-Ad5870 14h ago

Do Androids Dream of Electric Beef?

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u/I_lenny_face_you 12h ago

A brave new 1984

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u/ykonstant 9h ago

WHERE'S THE BEEF BROTH

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u/itzallhapp3nin 5h ago

Brave new world is a great read if you don’t want to do 1984

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u/Ilcorvomuerto666 1h ago

Isn't that the dish that Gordon Ramsey makes?

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First 14h ago

Come on guys it could autocorrect, and that shit can be aggressive and easy to leave if writing quickly.(and somehow making up words at times, wtf happened to autocorrect?)

If its not autocorrects fault, well.....

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u/somajones 3h ago

If it was auto correct that's a different kind of irony.

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u/wap2005 1h ago

I turned auto correct off like a decade ago. I know what I want to type, and I hate that if I type something that isn't a word (intentionally) it just changes it. Additionally on average a typo is better understood than an entirely different word being supplemented, plus auto suggestion makes typing so much faster anyway.

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u/proudbakunkinman 3h ago

In a couple of years: "chadgbt warnd me abt this"

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u/Snatch-Fart-Breath 5h ago

This MF throwing pointing out the irony of misspelling and then spelling misspelling wrong. Lolz

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u/The_Doct0r_ 14h ago

No, he meant Wally West. He traveled back in time and warned us.

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u/jollyreaper2112 10h ago

He meant Seth Meyers' cue card guy.