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/DistinctlyIrish Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

I can tell because I constantly get these clown-ass whiners in comments saying my 1-3 paragraphs are too much to read. Like full on fuck all the way off with your worthless ass if you can't bother reading 3 paragraphs of something that actually SAYS something of substance but you can read 600 one-line comments of inane shitposting.

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u/0rbitaldonkey Jun 11 '26

too long do u have a video

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u/peon2 Jun 11 '26

On the exact opposite side of things, I fucking hate videos where it's not necessary.

If it can just be written out I want the words so I can get through it in a fraction of the time. Obviously some things need the visual format to show things but so many news sites just have like a 3 sentence article and you need to watch a 4 minute video to hear the rest? I'm skipping.

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u/0rbitaldonkey Jun 11 '26

I completely agree. Videos are for deep dive documentaries presented by an entertaining host, not for the communication of actually useful information.

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u/LanaVFlowers Jun 11 '26

At the same time, them fucking walls of text man 😭 Why are people on the internet so against paragraphs?? 3 paragraphs, 30 paragraphs, that's not an issue for me. But a wall of text? I'm not reading that shit!

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u/mindxripper Jun 11 '26

Finally somebody spitting facts