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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
The difference in understanding held even when the marketing researchers made sure the test subjects were presented with identical facts. https://theconversation.com/learning-with-ai-falls-short-compared-to-old-fashioned-web-search-269760
@TheConversationUS the soft machine - if it isn't broken, don't fix it. #if it isn't broken don't fix it
@TheConversationUS I guess this proves that despite web search being shit nowadays, even at its absolute worst it's still better than an LLM.
"we do not believe the solution to these issues is to avoid using LLMs"
Why? The article offers not a single reason why you should NOT avoid using an LLM.
@TheConversationUS To the surprise of exactly zero people, relying on AI is once again, Bad
"To be clear, we do not believe the solution to these issues is to avoid using LLMs, especially given the undeniable benefits they offer in many contexts." Be so fr right now. What benefits? It's accelerating climate change, stealing people's work en messe, and it *has a death toll tied to it*! WHAT BENEFITS?!
@TheConversationUS Googling still involves active reading, and requires you to have a basic understanding of the information you read to make use of it. ChatGPT requires no cognitive effort whatsoever from the user. It's a plagiarism machine, pure and simple.
@TheConversationUS I use both... duckduckgo searches are usually better than it's AI but somethimes the AI outputs what I need directly.
AI requires an UBI to soften it all up but sadly, the fake left hates UBI and is adamant that rich politicians with their rich campaign managers and the rich leaders of their party, based on recommendations from k-street should decide what richer than average niches should get money.
@TheConversationUS Off topic, but the lady in the photo for this story is really cute 😍
@TheConversationUS Working as intended.
@TheConversationUS as someone with a PhD in Ed tech, all I have to say is, duh.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/opinion/larry-ellison-paramount-cbs-tiktok.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/trump-media-ultra-rich-democracy
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-more-creepy-economic
The people behind AI want a dangerously ill-informed public.
The same billionaires fund book bans, attacks on education, and make censorious news monopolies.
https://www.thefp.com/p/trump-prosecutor-threatens-wikipedia
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-moral-rot-eating-the-american
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-meltdown-at-heritage-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2025/11/18/meta-does-not-hold-monopoly-judge-rules/
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