Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab
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This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

Note: this lemmy post was originally titled MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline and linked to this article, which I cross-posted from this post in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world.

Someone pointed out that the “Science, Public Health Policy and the Law” website which published this click-bait summary of the MIT study is not a reputable publication deserving of traffic, so, 16 hours after posting it I am editing this post (as well as the two other cross-posts I made of it) to link to MIT’s page about the study instead.

The actual paper is here and was previously posted on !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and other lemmy communities here.

Note that the study with its original title got far less upvotes than the click-bait summary did 🤡

    • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Thing is, that “trivial question asking” is part of what causes this phenomenon

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      what should we do then?

      i also personally wouldn’t use AI at all if I didn’t have to compete with all these prompt engineers and their brainless speedy deployments

      Gotta argue that your more methodical and rigorous deployment strategy is more cost efficient than guys cranking out big ridden releases.

      If your boss refuses to see it, you either go with the flow or look for a new job (or unionize).

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      you should stop using it and use wikipedia.

      being able to pull relevant information out of a larger of it, is a incredibly valuable life skill. you should not be replacing that skill with an AI chatbot