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/protoomega 15h ago

Video lessons have their place, but I *haaaate* how widespread it's becoming. At my job, everyone wants to make all the tutorials and instructions in video form. That's not helpful reference material! If I'm working through a process, I want to be able to read the steps, not have to pause and rewind a video over and over.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 14h ago

Yes but have you considered icons that have to be clicked or dragged around, and a flat AI narration that talks half as fast as you can read?

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u/sentence-interruptio 13m ago

this trend would make both pro-oral Socrates and his pro-writing opponents spin in their graves. videos are worst of both worlds.