This becomes problematic if young people who might be wise in one of their futures start reading this shit instead of real books. This is already happening due to social media.
That aspect is my concern. A 2020 Gallup study suggested that over half of United States residents lacked English proficiency. While I suppose a tool like this might encourage some to read who might not otherwise, I worry students will use it as a crutch, not pushing themselves to develop their vocabularies and comprehension skills.
Anecdotally, I work in a field that typically requires an advanced education. The proportion of my coworkers that consistently demonstrates basic reading comprehension issues likewise concerns me.
If they read more simple material, they would still improve their reading comprehension. Maybe even more efficiently, if it’s still challenging but not overwhelming
Reading things written in old English probably isn’t going to improve your literacy, because it’s not really the same language. If anything you’re going to make it worse when people try using older spellings, grammar conventions, or words that are no longer used. If you actually want to understand and use modern English, maybe start with modern English. If you really wanted to help people read and write, reform spellings and grammar to be more easily understood or pull a Korea and make a whole new much simpler writing system.
I am more talking about all those people forcing kids to read shakespeare some of which are in this comment section. I’ve seen people here advocating reading old texts to improve English comprehension.
This becomes problematic if young people who might be wise in one of their futures start reading this shit instead of real books. This is already happening due to social media.
That aspect is my concern. A 2020 Gallup study suggested that over half of United States residents lacked English proficiency. While I suppose a tool like this might encourage some to read who might not otherwise, I worry students will use it as a crutch, not pushing themselves to develop their vocabularies and comprehension skills.
Anecdotally, I work in a field that typically requires an advanced education. The proportion of my coworkers that consistently demonstrates basic reading comprehension issues likewise concerns me.
Edit: that this post was three down from this one gave me a good laugh: https://lemmy.world/post/17068182
If they read more simple material, they would still improve their reading comprehension. Maybe even more efficiently, if it’s still challenging but not overwhelming
You improve reading comprehension (like any skill) by challenging yourself. The AI text would only be a challenge for a brand new English learner.
You can ask the AI for any reading level you want and it will do it
Yes, people reading books would be terrible
Reading things written in old English probably isn’t going to improve your literacy, because it’s not really the same language. If anything you’re going to make it worse when people try using older spellings, grammar conventions, or words that are no longer used. If you actually want to understand and use modern English, maybe start with modern English. If you really wanted to help people read and write, reform spellings and grammar to be more easily understood or pull a Korea and make a whole new much simpler writing system.
Are you talking about some other book? Because the text in the image is extremely normal modern English.
I am more talking about all those people forcing kids to read shakespeare some of which are in this comment section. I’ve seen people here advocating reading old texts to improve English comprehension.