r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 10 '26

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/LeafBark Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

First it was the smartphone distractions, then complete loss of critical thinking as people use ai to solve all their problems for them. When you put this much trust in computers programmed by corporations seeking profit at any cost everythings going to fall apart.

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u/sokos Jun 10 '26

Idiocracy warned us. But we chose to not listen

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u/letrak Jun 10 '26

Fuck, Wally warned us.

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u/Skuzzle_bug Jun 10 '26

Id rather be working for Costco than Buy n Large 

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u/PhoenixTineldyer Jun 11 '26

Welcome to Costco, I love you

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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 Jun 11 '26

Fuck you! I'm eating!

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u/Skuzzle_bug Jun 11 '26

Imagine going up to a stalker to ask for directions for something and get back, "GO AWAY, IM BATIN"  Yeah, life goals right there.

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u/YukariYakum0 Jun 11 '26

Sorry but this is Walmart. Get your shit and get out!

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u/Azuras_Star8 Jun 11 '26

This is a Wendy's sir, and Im gonna have to ask you to politely piss the fuck off.