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ChatGPT also dramatically worsens the problem.
It just does the writing and reading for you.
So you then just... never develop any actual reading or writing skills.
Its turning people into something akin to zombies, more or less. Either that or maybe just trying to think of it as some new kind of addiction or mental disability would be a more apt comparison?
I... its baffling, I can barely comprehend how significant and widespread this problem is... when I was in elementary school, I finished assignments and such so fast, with such frequency, that I would get assigned to go out into the hallway and help other kids who were struggling with reading skills, I'd help them read through books, sound out words, explain what they mean.
Thats my point of reference here, I'm back in 2nd grade, helping (probably dyslexic) 4th graders learn how to read.
This is one of the scary parts, yes. Reading and writing are fundamental skills that will atrophy if not practiced. Combined with anti-intellectualism, where people fundamentally do not value reading and writing skills, it's pretty nasty.
I don't know how to fix it. It's a gap in values. I often find myself wondering about the people around me, "Why don't you care?" I don't know why they don't care about things.
Why don't they care?
... The reliance on machines to do their thinking has more or less made them into actual NPCs.
First it was the combined effect of all of the media machines of capitalism, providing so many distractions and distortions.
Now... its much more direct, formidable, capable... total.
Just go look into the number of people who've killed themselves or others after more or less being goaded or gaslit into by... their only friend, ChatGPT.
Its realworld cyberpsychosis, from Cyberpunk 2077.