College English majors can't read (kittenbeloved.substack.com)

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[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 62 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This explains a lot of the behavior of the lost libs that stumble in here like the guy yesterday demanding exhaustive sources and when provided with such simply said "I ain't reading all that".

More than 80% of Americans are functionally illiterate

[-] doleo@lemmy.one 35 points 1 month ago

I ain’t reading all that

Is the kind of anti-intellectualism that I'm seeing plastered all over the internet. Maybe it's confirmation bias on my part, but I swear that people are getting increasingly pissed off with having to read anything.

I was watching a streamer the other day, and the chat was spamming "UP" every time someone chatted more than 3 lines. They were reveling in it.

[-] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

no for sure, they definitely are. there was even a meme (the nerd emoji) that got used sometimes to reply to people who typed too much. i also notice a lot in chats, people will send a long thought through many messages instead of just one. it's very strange.

seeing someone say "i aint reading all that, i ran it through chatgpt and here's why it's stupid" would actually surprise me bc it's slightly more effort than im used to seeing agony-shivering

[-] MizuTama@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

What gets me is ChatGPT yaps its fucking ass off like it's trying to reach a word minimum.

So like????? What do they mean when they say they put it through chatgpt???? Often, they do it for simple statements or analysis to so it's not like it is breaking it down for them either as at least that would make sense. It's just as long-winded but is also a bottle deep into benedryl by design so it makes shit up as it fundamentally has no grasp of reality and they're having it read text and explain it for them????