Misleading headline. This article is about ChatGPT and not "AI". A major problem with the "AI" grift is that it spawns so many dependent grifts like this one. "Science" under capitalism is not actually science.

The name and presentation of that site has a veneer of legitimacy, but it really doesn't seem credible.

I warned about this for the past 3 years. The WHO wants universal mental health care and to drug at least a billion of us.

Do Viruses Exist?

There's also a lot of general antivax stuff.

Now, sharing a lot of ... Questionable articles... Doesn't make the article in question invalid. It does however call into extreme doubt any editorial context the site might be adding.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

This is the actual study being referenced. It's conclusions are significantly less severe than this presents them as, while still conveying "LLMs are not generally the best tool for facilitating education".

trade-off highlights an important educational concern: AI tools, while valuable for supporting performance, may unintentionally hinder deep cognitive processing, retention, and authentic engagement with written material. If users rely heavily on AI tools, they may achieve superficial fluency but fail to internalize the knowledge or feel a sense of ownership over it.

from an educational standpoint, these results suggest that strategic timing of AI tool introduction following initial self-driven effort may enhance engagement and neural integration. The corresponding EEG markers indicate this may be a more neurocognitively optimal sequence than consistent AI tool usage from the outset

Ultimately, this isn't saying AI tools cause brain damage or make you stupid. It's saying that learning via LLM often causes worse retention of the information being learned. It also says that search engines and LLMs can remove certain types of cognitive load that are not conducive to retention, making learning easier and faster in some cases where engagement can be kept high.

It's important to be clear and honest about what a study is saying, even if it's not as unequivocally negative as the venue might appreciate.

Just wanna point out that every time something scares you enough, it also reprograms/rewires your brain. Not trying to discredit the study, but the reprogramming really isn't the concern; it's if the reprogramming is beneficial, which this isn't.

Amusingly using what appears to be an AI generated image.

Tech bros stay losing, it is a good day

Hooray!

We invented cyberpsychosis, for reals!

Isn't it so cool to live in a cyberpunk dystopia!?!

Brb, gonna go OD on some early access/preview alpha braindances!

There’s a good body of research on cognitive capacity and creativity in regard to enriching environments. Even down to rats. Give rats playgrounds and toys and they perform better at memory tasks and solving puzzles.

I suppose you could train rats to press a button to get a human to come solve problems for them. Take the human away, then what?

What’s insidious here is the same over scheduled kids, having their childhoods choreographed for enrichment, are often the ones coming out of childhood with critical thinking, anxiety, and socialization deficits, we think because they’re using their phones for every problem solve.

Related post from when this was initially published: https://midwest.social/post/30021473

Oh, baby, did you read the thing? Something tells me you didn't read the thing.

Did they control this against my mental decline after using a rage-inducing traditional search for 10x as long? I get the point being made, but nothing exists in a vacuum.

Living the cosmic horror, a god we didn't know we were summoning is changing our minds for the dumber.

Maybe the Amish were on to something.

Wall-e

I know this is true because I've seen people get dumber using their little bots for everything. But techbro will argue that you could say the exact same thing about the internet or electricity. Technically all inventions have made us dumber. The majority of people cant make clothes, do long division, build a log cabin etc because its all been made easier.

Ironic that the article is using shitty AI generated images to illustrate the point.

Explains a lot

Ghost in the shell

i gotta say, not using LLMs is more fun than using them, but I do have the luxury of time.