I’m torn on this. It frustrates the hell out of me that so many people graduated from high schools and colleges with such shitty writing skills, so AI assisted writing helps keep me sane when reading their work.
However, the paradox is that if they learned to write while they were in school, they’d be able to whip out a quick and understandable note much faster than going through such a multi step process.
Not to try and start the revolution from the bowels of this subreddit, but this strikes such a chord with me… Big Tech has convinced so many people their lives are better, and they could never go back to living without, technology that didn’t exist but for the last handful of years out of the 100,000 years that Homo sapiens have had modern brains.
Some things are fairly harmless but representative of the issue, like step counting smart watches and sleep scores. Do you need an app to tell you if you slept well or went on a walk? I have so many people in my life obsessed with both of those data points.
Unrestricted AI use on the other hand is an existential issue. Reading comprehension for 4th and 8th graders is lower than it’s been in 30 years and moving in the wrong direction. We’re outsourcing our brains to tech both in creation and consumption of information and becoming rapidly stupider. Smart people generally will still be smart, but the gap between them and average or below average intelligence people is rapidly widening. Which is how the people who are smart and have money and power and sit on top are only increasingly able to control and influence the world in their favor. Intelligence inequality is going to be the latest thing that just adds fuel to fires of income inequality.
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u/CrzyMuffinMuncher 1d ago
I’m torn on this. It frustrates the hell out of me that so many people graduated from high schools and colleges with such shitty writing skills, so AI assisted writing helps keep me sane when reading their work.
However, the paradox is that if they learned to write while they were in school, they’d be able to whip out a quick and understandable note much faster than going through such a multi step process.