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by deaton 3 hours ago
With atrophy to our not-AI ability to do things
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I don't buy it. Literacy rates have been increasing even after the invention of text to speech.
Both articles use 2017 as the turning point date. TTS is a lot older than that. It's not difficult to find data to fit the desired point if you choose a narrow enough time range. Or location selectivity - both of those are just about the United States.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cross-country-literacy-ra...