cognitive decline.
Another reason for refusing those so-called tools... it could turn one into another tool.
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2025
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It’s a clickbait title. Using AI doesn’t actually cause cognitive decline. They’re saying using AI isn’t as engaging for your brain as the manual work, and then broadly linking that to the widely understood concept that you need to engage your brain to stay sharp. Not exactly groundbreaking.
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More like it would cause you to need the tool in order to be the tool that you are already mandated to be.
You write essay with AI your learning suffers.
One of these papers that are basically "water is wet, researches discover".
No wonder Republicans like it so much
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.
Better late than never. Good catch.
But does it cause this when when used exclusively for RP gooning sessions?
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Its so disturbing. Especially the bit about your brain activity not returning to normal afterwards. They are teaching the kids to use it in elementary schools.
I think they meant it doesn't return to non-AI-user levels when you do the same task on your own immediately afterwards. But if you keep doing the task on your own for some time, I'd expect it to return to those levels rather fast.
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it's not any different than eating fast/processed food vs eating healthy.
it warps your expectations
Heyyy, now I get to enjoy some copium for being such a dinosaur and resisting to use it as often as I can
You're not a dinosaur. Making people feel old and out of the trend is exactly one of the strategies used by big techs to shove their stuff into people.
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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
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