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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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[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago

You write essay with AI your learning suffers.

One of these papers that are basically "water is wet, researches discover".

[–] suddenlyme@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Its so disturbing. Especially the bit about your brain activity not returning to normal afterwards. They are teaching the kids to use it in elementary schools.

[–] hisao@ani.social 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think they meant it doesn't return to non-AI-user levels when you do the same task on your own immediately afterwards. But if you keep doing the task on your own for some time, I'd expect it to return to those levels rather fast.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's probably true, but it sure can be hard to motivate yourself to do things yourself when that AI dice roll is right there to give you an immediate dopamine hit. I'm starting to see things like vibecoding being as addictive as gambling.
Personally I don't use AI because I see all the subtle ways it's wrong when programming, and the more I pay attention to things like AI search results, it seems like there's almost always something misrepresented or subtly incorrect in the output, and for any topics I'm not already fluent in, I likely won't notice these things until it's already causing issues

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[–] Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago
[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

cognitive decline.

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

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[–] sudo_shinespark@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] morto@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're not a dinosaur. Making people feel old and out of the trend is exactly one of the strategies used by big techs to shove their stuff into people.

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[–] veebee@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I mean, that’s not surprising.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 3 points 1 week 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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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

Ok, if the ai knows

[–] darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl 0 points 1 week ago

Good article.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Don’t worry scro

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