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People focus on the trouble AI is causing in schools, but the real tragedy is that young people today can live their whole lives without ever composing any type of long form writing. Asking them to is like asking someone to do long division when a calculator is right there.
Some people will still love to write, but for the majority, creative writing is dead as disco.
basically i abhor long form writing too
ok, let me clear up definitions. "long form writing" is when you write a text with the expectation that it's at least, say, 500 words long. intentional verbosity. like they did require us in school. "write at least 500 words about your opinion on laceless shoes"
that's mostly because i have experienced that that kind of requirement leads to bloat, but not to content. I.e. people don't say more simply because they use more words. It is in fact, i believe, the talent of a great writer to express much with little words.
Basically my ideal piece of text looks like this:
3-5 paragraphs, 1-3 lines each, and 1-2 images strewn into it.
People posting comments on sites like Reddit and Lemmy give me hope that some portion of society still appreciates creative writing.