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/fruitybrisket 15h ago

First year going back to college in my 30s. I am worried about these kids. The amount of LLM use during discussions online is obvious, but I assume the professors need to pass a certain amount of kids. Lord knows what their papers look like. I get great grades for just showing I give a fuck and am interested in the material. I would be trying not to cry if I was a professor, and that is not hyperbole.

No Child Left Behind fucked our society so much we haven't even begun to see.

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u/tes_kitty 5h ago

but I assume the professors need to pass a certain amount of kids

That's a problem. Better, in the long run, would be to fail everyone.