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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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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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[–] veebee@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

I mean, that’s not surprising.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What a ridiculous study. People who got AI to write their essay can’t remember quotes from their AI written essay? You don’t say?! Those same people also didn’t feel much pride over their essay that they didn’t write? Hold the phone!!! Groundbreaking!!!

Academics are a joke these days.

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[–] Yoshi@futurology.today 4 points 6 months ago

Thank you for providing a better Source and editing the post!

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago

Ok, if the ai knows

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