So fucking crazy how AI is completely stunting people's ability to read, write, talk, etc. All while completely destroying the environment as well.

People aren't gonna be able to function at all if it keeps going like this

We are so dearly screwed

  • PointAndClique [they/them]
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    1 day ago

    Kid was probably high or something idk this sounds like 'grandpa why can't i click on book' level made up story

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      1 day ago

      It does feel kind of too shocking to be true, but it reminds me of "character amnesia", in Chinese known as wàng ("lift the pen, forget the character") and a person suffering from this is known in Japanese as ワープロ鹿 (waapurobaka, "word processor idiot"). Character amnesia is an anecdotally well-attested but poorly studied phenomenon of Chinese and Japanese speakers forgetting how to write characters by hand, because they almost always write using IMEs, and almost always read the characters based on their overall shape rather than looking at the details.

      So over-reliance on a technology that writes your words for you making you struggle with your own language is something that's happened before, however character amnesia is in writing, which I think is a much less hard-wired skill in our brains compared to speaking.

      • PointAndClique [they/them]
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        1 day ago

        提笔忘字 is real, but the tibi part at least you know the word and lift your pen, it's just the writing you've forgotten. Kinda same as if I'd forgotten how to spell a word, I still know the word and could say it if I want.

        Anecdotally, speaking to people of that age range, and to people who use LLMs regularly (and the intersection of that age who use llms), I haven't noticed any regression or drastic loss of ability to select/recall words in conversation as the tweet describes. That kind of catastrophic failure of remembering basic words sounds like something more serious than a couple of years of using chatGPT can inflict

        • TerribleHands [he/him]
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          Chinese isn't that complicated. It's hard to have to memorize thousands of characters, and the use of tones can be difficult to process at first, but their grammar systems are more logical and straightforward than English's.

          English is a weird mongrel language, full of borrowed rules and vocabulary, its inconsistency makes it complicated.

  • AcidLeaves [they/them, he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Calm down OP, I know a ton of Stanford grads who are 30-50 years old and they're all dumb as rocks in anything other than finding the G-spot on a computer

    These people were never exactly the gold standard for conversation/speaking/social skills

  • AntifaSuperWombat [she/her]
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    1 day ago

    China will wipe the floor with us so hard, and I’m definitely going to enjoy it. Electric cars, solar panels and semiconductor manufacturing are just the beginning. xi-square-up

  • TerribleHands [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Whatever the dude says, to me this sounds more like "I have covid" than "I spend too much time with ChatGPT".

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    1 day ago

    In Norway there's a growing number of people who forget basic words in Norwegian because they spend so much time reading and writing in English. This number frankly includes myself but I tend to give myself a "pass" because I at least have an immigrant background and a language disorder where that would make sense.

    Anyways I'm just thinking that the logical progression of Norwegians forgetting Norwegian due to over-reliance on English, is Norwegians also forgetting English due to over-reliance on ChatGPT. The Lord God is a Dane and He is putting in motion a divine retribution for the "kamelåså" gag.