AI is producing 70% of social media content and making us stupid
“So, like, verbal reasoning, problem solving, or abstract thinking, it's all kind of, like, declining.”
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started to go down. So, like, verbal reasoning, problem solving, or abstract thinking, it's all kind of, like, declining. And nobody actually knows why. And I wonder if now in this, you know, last ten years or so with, like, extreme content production and now also with AI being produce producing, like, 70% of, all content on social media, I wonder how that's gonna impact that. But here you go. This is the proof that we are actually, becoming, more stupid potentially.
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The speaker presents evidence that human cognitive abilities like verbal reasoning and abstract thinking are declining, though the cause is unknown. They speculate that the rise of AI-generated content, which now makes up 70% of social media, combined with extreme content production over the past decade, could be contributing to this troubling trend.
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This presents a provocative theory linking AI content proliferation to measurable declines in human intelligence, offering a counternarrative to AI optimism.
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