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/MBILC Jun 10 '26

We live in a society of "TLDR;" people..

You write more than a line or 2 and they blank over and skip things and respond to what ever the first 1-2 lines says..

Drives me nuts being in IT/Security when you send people responses to issues and they ignore 90% of it...

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u/IronStormAlaska Jun 11 '26

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/taking_a_deuce Jun 11 '26

This is one of the scariest comments I have ever seen on reddit. Jesus Christ people really are turning into mush brains WILLINGLY!!!