Comment by nottorp

Comment by nottorp 4 days ago

6 replies

Well there was some hope with ChatGPT that people will go back to being able to process text communication.

Guess it was just a matter of time till someone figured out how to use "AI" to resume encouraging illiteracy.

stavros 4 days ago

There was some hope with the rise of equestrianism that people will go back to be able to shoe horses.

Guess it was just a matter of time till someone figured out how to use "cars" to resume encouraging being unable to to a basic farrier job.

  • nottorp 4 days ago

    Except cars were faster than horses, while audio or video content is much slower than reading.

    • stavros 4 days ago

      Cars also have legs while audio doesn't, a point which is equally irrelevant. If people don't need to read, they don't need to read, and no matter how much a random Internet commenter wants them to need it, it won't change anything.

      Skills atrophy for a reason. It's fine to let them. You may as well be lamenting the lost art of long division.

      • nottorp 4 days ago

        > Cars also have legs while audio doesn't, a point which is equally irrelevant.

        That's what a LLM would say :)

        • stavros 4 days ago

          I'm sure an LLM wouldn't say anything as inane as that :P

    • hombre_fatal 3 days ago

      You can multitask with audio content, so you can consume content when you can't sit down to read. And you can even potentially consume more volume like on a long daily commute.

      It's not the case that it's worse.