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This isn't much different from what teachers said about the internet, search engines, and Wikipedia...
It's quite different. The web in the 90s wasn't dominated by 4 web sites controlled by an algorithm.
And they were right. Those tools are alright if you know how to verify information, but ease of access to information dulls that ability.
It is so much different.
Kids might have plagiarised, but they weren't utterly inept and brainwashed by the almighty algorithm.
Kids didn't all repeat the same lines they all heard from a thousand different sources.
Sure,some weren't the brightest, but it wasn't all lock step, no actual original thought, unconscious, gobbledygoook.
Even the less intelligent at least had something to say that came from within, not without.
And it isn't just kids.
The amount of people I've tried to speak with who, though completely separate in life and station, repeat the EXACT SAME LINES.
We are fucked.
I've noticed this, too. Grown adults in their 30s and 40s just repeat things they've seen on the internet, word for word, as though they're providing a meaningful contribution to a conversation. It's so bizarre.
I dunno, I some of the same junk and oft-repeated lines decades ago. We literally have a phrase for it: "Old wives' tales".
Having taught "kids these days", I have still seen independent and creative thought in the majority of them.