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 ๐Ÿคก

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[+] -14 points 1 year ago (16 children)
  • [โ€“] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This isn't just being said, it's being shown with data.

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's the thing about cognitive decline...

    The people experiencing it only realize it's happening during brief reprieves from the symptoms

    So if someone is experiencing cognitive decline, they're literally incapable of recognizing it. They all think they completely fine...

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago

    A constant refrain I've found myself using with a Facebook "friend" is "you lack the ability to even understand why you are wrong". Like I'm convinced he actually thinks anecdotal stories carry as much weight as troves of data proving him wrong.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 1 year ago

    The people the paper talks about are the masses who think LLMs are "intelligent", then outsource their frontal lobe to Silicon Valley datacenters because it's seemingly easier. People who see LLMs as tools are much less (if at all) affected by this, if anything it's a trap for people who already have lower critical thinking skills in the first place and want GPUs to think for them.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [โ€“] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Realistically speaking, why would anyone think it's odd to defend something they use and/or enjoy? That doesn't really point to anything abnormal.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It is not. As with all things, LLMs have their use. Unfortunately, they are slightly overhyped and the tech is very resource hungry, contributing to environmental and societal problems in at least the USA, probably everywhere to at least some extent.

    The hope is, ofcourse, that the same tech will help alleviate those problems in turn. Time will tell who's right.

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