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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€“] trashgarbage78@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

what should we do then? just abandon LLM use entirely or use it in moderation? i find it useful to ask trivial questions and sort of as a replacement for wikipedia. also what should we do to the people who are developing this 'rat poison' and feeding it to young people's brains?

edit: 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

[โ€“] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] trashgarbage78@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

so i shouldnt be using LLMs at all? what is your use case?

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