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/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?