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 🤡

  • QuadDamage@kbin.earth
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    2 days ago

    The people the paper talks about are the masses who think LLMs are “intelligent”, then outsource their frontal lobe to Silicon Valley datacenters because it’s seemingly easier. People who see LLMs as tools are much less (if at all) affected by this, if anything it’s a trap for people who already have lower critical thinking skills in the first place and want GPUs to think for them.