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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)
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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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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

cognitive decline.

Another reason for refusing those so-called tools... it could turn one into another tool.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mika_mika@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Sir this is Lemmy & I'm afraid I have to downvote you for defending AI which is always bad. /s

[–] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

More like it would cause you to need the tool in order to be the tool that you are already mandated to be.