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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)
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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 🤡

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

a custom VPN without security minded planning and knowledge? that sounds like a disaster.

surely you could do other things that have more impact for yourself, still with computers. use wireguard and spend the time with setting up your services and network security.
and, port forwarding.. I don't know where are you running that, but linux iptables can do that too, in the kernel, with better performance.

[–] hisao@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oops, I meant self-hosting a wireguard server, not actually doing an alternative to wireguard or openvpn themselves...

and, port forwarding… I don’t know where are you running that, but linux iptables can do that too, in the kernel, with better performance.

With my previous paid VPN I had to use natpmpc to ask their server for forwarding/binding ports for me, and I also had to do that every 45 seconds. It's nice to get a bash script running in a systemd demon that does that in a loop, and also parses output and saves remote ports server gave us this time to file in case we need them (like, for setting up a tor relay). Also, I got another script and demon for tor relay that monitors forwarded port changes (from a file) and updates torrc and restarts tor container. All this by Copilot, without knowing bash at all. Without having to write complex regexes to parse that output or regexes to overwrite tor config, etc. It's not a single prompt, it requires some troubleshooting and clarifications and ultimately I got to know some of the low level details of this myself. Which is also great.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oops, I meant self-hosting a wireguard server, not actually doing an alternative to wireguard or openvpn themselves...

oh, that's fine then, recommended even.

With my previous paid VPN I had to use natpmpc to ask their server for forwarding/binding ports for me, and I also had to do that every 45 seconds. It's nice to get a bash script running in a systemd demon that does that in a loop, and also parses output and saves remote ports server gave us this time to file in case we need them (like, for setting up a tor relay).

oh so this is a management automation that requests an outside system to open ports, and updates services to use the ports you got. that's interesting! what VPN service was that?

All this by Copilot, without knowing bash at all.

be sure to run shellcheck for your scripts though, it can point out issues. aim for it to have no output, that means all seems ok.

[–] hisao@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago

what VPN service was that?

Proton VPN

be sure to run shellcheck for your scripts though, it can point out issues. aim for it to have no output, that means all seems ok.

It does some logging though, and I read what it logs via systemctl --user status. Anyway, those scripts/services so far are of a simple kind - if they don't work, I notice that immediately, because my torrents not seeding or my tor/i2p proxy ports not working in browser. In case when error can only be discovered conditionally somewhere during a long runtime, it needs more complicated and careful testing.