Funny... lots of high school kids can't read now, either
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The rich are still regretting that they let the peasants have the printing press
Its intentional
People focus on the trouble AI is causing in schools, but the real tragedy is that young people today can live their whole lives without ever composing any type of long form writing. Asking them to is like asking someone to do long division when a calculator is right there.
Some people will still love to write, but for the majority, creative writing is dead as disco.
People posting comments on sites like Reddit and Lemmy give me hope that some portion of society still appreciates creative writing.
Actually there are quite a few archeological findings showing that at least in some cultures, reading and writing was far more common than we think. Cf. e.g. https://ruscorpora.ru/en/corpus/birchbark or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindolanda_tablets.
And, things were so much better then...
for the filthy rich. Which is one of the reasons they attack our public school systems today.
Few realize that today's youth have such a bad attention span they are by and large functionally illiterate.