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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 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days 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 🀑

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[–] DownToClown@lemmy.world 90 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The obvious AI-generated image and the generic name of the journal made me think that there was something off about this website/article and sure enough the writer of this article is on X claiming that covid 19 vaccines are not fit for humans and that there's a clear link between vaccines and autism.

Neat.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Thanks for pointing this out. Looking closer I see that that "journal" was definitely not something I want to be sending traffic to, for a whole bunch of reasons - besides anti-vax they're also anti-trans, and they're gold bugs... and they're asking tough questions like "do viruses exist" 🀑

I edited the post to link to MIT instead, and added a note in the post body explaining why.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Public health flat earthers

[–] tad_lispy@europe.pub 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the warning. Here's the link to the original study, so we don't have to drive traffic to that guys website.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

I haven't got time to read it and now I wonder if it was represented accurately in the article.

[–] codemankey@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s a math article

[–] tad_lispy@europe.pub 8 points 1 week ago

Fixed. Thanks!