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 [email protected].

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 [email protected] and other lemmy communities here.

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

  • the_q@lemmy.zipEnglish
    910·
    2 days ago

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

    • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      151·
      2 days ago

      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.

        • Artisian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          2 days ago

          I wouldn’t want to apply that to my favorite policy interventions.

          You’re probably right that ranked choice voting won’t unlock utopia, and your favorite flavor of communism probably leads to the worst endless meeting. But we don’t have to like it.

    • QuadDamage@kbin.earth
      51·
      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.

    • Angelusz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      86·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • Korkki@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        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,