I can't help but think this is a phenomenon unique to the US where education has been completely devalued. If the only point of education is to fulfill a requirement to make more money then it makes sense to shortcut as much as possible.

The solution is of course no computer

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[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You're not supposed to read the article, that's cheating. You're supposed to glance at the headline and immediately dive into discourse.

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yet another example of shortcuts people have been taking before AI.

AI is destroying people's critical thinking by summarising news articles for them? Oh exalted sibling, nobody was reading the articles to begin with.

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

To be clear, my comment here was meant as meta-commentary more than anything specific or useful. I didn't realize that I replied to you twice and I'll share my full thoughts in the other response but I will say that I think low quality and misleading article headlines are an early rung on the ladder to brain enshittification.