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AI is ruining self-learning

AI has made it nearly impossible for beginners to learn new topics because the internet is flooded with unreliable AI-generated content, according to a personal essay published on May 26, 2026. The author, who develops software, notes that while AI enhances productivity for experts, it undermines truth-seeking for novices who cannot distinguish fact from slop.

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The thing I hate most about AI is that it has made it very difficult to actually learn something new anymore. I have become convinced that if you already know what you are doing, AI can be quite cool. It definitely allows me to develop more and better software than ever before (which I'm not convinced yet is necessarily a good thing, but it is cool). The problem is, though, if you don't know what you're doing, AI has made it more or less impossible to tell what is true or not anymore. This is actually a huge problem for learning. If you don't know what you don't know, how can you possibly sift through the sheer volume of slop that has flooded the internet on whatever topic you're trying to learn about? This is actually a frustrating problem.

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