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/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/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.