There was no Fox News, Facebook or Joe Rogan when watergate happened and no citizens united yet so there was a shared concept of reality in the country.

No that’s not the same thing. It’s the difference between looking up how to do something and having it done for you.

There have been multiple articles recently that show AI weakens skills.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswestfall/2024/12/18/the-dark-side-of-ai-tracking-the-decline-of-human-cognitive-skills/

Btw there’s no need to add strawman arguments with scenarios I didn’t mention.

The bigger problem is that your skills are weakened a bit every time you use an assistant to write code.