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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    I mean… a good chunk of the US (and apparently also at least Western Europe) can’t read or write. That is a sadly normal problem at this point. And the rest? We actively teach kids to pattern match and “guess” what the other words are from the ones they recognize. Think about that the next time it is painfully obvious that someone replying to you didn’t read what you actually said.

    A friend who teaches middle school has come to accept that a good chunk of why their students (and presumably the adult populace) flock to “AI Assistants” is that it is literally giving them text to speech and putting things into a format they understand. Which… combined with the tendency towards hallucination and overly praising the user is fucking horrifying.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      We actively teach kids to pattern match and “guess” what the other words are from the ones they recognize.

      Unless you’re talking about something totally different, that just sounds like using roots and context clues – a normal, healthy, and constructive way of understanding language.