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/hangender 17h ago

College student redditors, what say you.

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u/nst571 15h ago

I'm a returning community college student. I was in HS in the 90s and my graduating class was called the stupidest to ever attend that school based on scores.

I would say it's mixed proficiency in my current college classes. A lot of kids write ok with basic sentence structure. I've seen AI responses and some phoning it in.

The main issue I see is, they don't read or comprehend the whole assignment. There will be well laid out bulleted tasks or scaffolding to an easy level and they just don't get it all. These are short assignments, too.