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The sun still rose every day before we knew the planet spins...
Tobacco still caused cancer before the studies came out...
If you've studied biopsychology, you know what happens to any offloading of a cognitive function.
That it's being handed off specifically to AI, just doesn't matter in the slightest. Because the offloading itself is what causes the atrophy.
The issue here, is what is being offloaded is critical thinking...
Which makes it incredibly difficult to explain what is happening to someone who is experiencing it, somewhat like Alzheimer's.
People reliant on chatbots to do their critical thinking, simply don't have the critical thinking to understand the problem. The only way to get them out of it, is making them go cold turkey like with drugs. And eventually the brain will begrudgingly start doing critical thinking again, but it's gonna take a while, because offloading cognitive tasks from the conscious mind is literally why humans are the dominant species.
It's why it takes so little time for people to become reliant on it.