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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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[–] Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago
[–] sudo_shinespark@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Heyyy, now I get to enjoy some copium for being such a dinosaur and resisting to use it as often as I can

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[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 4 points 2 days 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.

[–] trashgarbage78@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

what should we do then? just abandon LLM use entirely or use it in moderation? i find it useful to ask trivial questions and sort of as a replacement for wikipedia. also what should we do to the people who are developing this 'rat poison' and feeding it to young people's brains?

edit: i also personally wouldn't use AI at all if I didn't have to compete with all these prompt engineers and their brainless speedy deployments

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