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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task [edited post to change title and URL] (www.media.mit.edu)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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 ๐Ÿคก

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[โ€“] the_q@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You don't think it's odd that you use AI and here you are defending it?

[โ€“] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Realistically speaking, why would anyone think it's odd to defend something they use and/or enjoy? That doesn't really point to anything abnormal.

[โ€“] QuadDamage@kbin.earth 4 points 2 days ago

...you are in a technology community? They're barely defending anything either, just a reasonable take about people saying the same thing about earlier technologies.

[โ€“] Angelusz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is not. As with all things, LLMs have their use. Unfortunately, they are slightly overhyped and the tech is very resource hungry, contributing to environmental and societal problems in at least the USA, probably everywhere to at least some extent.

The hope is, ofcourse, that the same tech will help alleviate those problems in turn. Time will tell who's right.

[โ€“] Korkki@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Haven't you heard wallstreet needs AI to be "good" or 75% of the tech companies + Nvidia take a nosedive we'll get a another -08 recession,

[โ€“] Angelusz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Skynet does not approve this capitalism.

[โ€“] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Clearly their mind has been taken over by the machine /s

Baffling comment tbh