I don't think it's an understatement to say there's going to be entire cohorts of junior academics, coders, copywriters, "artists" etc who are functionally illiterate in their own discipline and this will become *very* apparent when anyone takes a second glance at their work
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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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2025: "Why would I hire someone to do that when Chat GPT exists- Unless you want an underpaying temp job training our in office LLM?"
"uh, no, I can spit out a whole new version that's kinda-sorta similar and has new issues in"
Yeah, I can see this being something of an issue when people move from "uni exercises" to "real work"!
Students can't be bothered to read anything longer than a few sentences, much less an article/book. Kicks in hard in middle grades and high school.
Meanwhile, they doomscroll forgettable rubbish for hours every day.
Ability to consume longer-form content re-developed in my late 20s with a decision to be able to do that