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AI Use Appears to Have a “Boiling Frog” Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
"In a new study, researchers claim to provide the first causal evidence that leaning on AI to assist with “reasoning-intensive” cognitive labor — mental tasks ranging from writing to studying to coding to simply brainstorming new ideas — can rapidly impair users’ intellectual ability and willingness to persist despite difficulty."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-boiling-frog-human-cognition-study
Had a discussion here yesterday which sounded reasonable, until it became clear that half the points the other person was making were just wrong, and realized they were getting it all from asking an LLM for responses.
Turned out they had no knowledge of the subject at all and were confidently arguing nonsense.
All this strange sounding falsity is now being exchanged everywhere, all the time. It's so sad. We are raising a generation of nitwits.
@mastodonmigration @metin just curious. Did you read the actual paper before you came here to argue about it?
@mastodonmigration @metin
This confidence-only rolling over everything had existed before, and it has been just as painful, ... for others :)
The bad thing now, is that society will get more of this unpleasant behaviour.
The good aspect is that now we talk and articulate this "not helpful in a long run" behaviour.
@mastodonmigration @metin I mean, there were a lot of overconfident nitwits before LLM slop.
@mastodonmigration @cascheranno I wonder if the increasing "AI" use will result in a rise of brain diseases such as dementia, due to a lack of mental exercise.
@mastodonmigration @metin I went and looked it up. The long dash usages give it away 🤣
Yup, probably should have identified it sooner, and will be more alert in the future.
To be clear, the purpose here is not to call anyone out, who may have just been trying to engage on a subject they found interesting.
Rather it was to share an example that relates to the boiling pot thesis of the above article.
@mastodonmigration @metin I am thinking that maybe, in this case, it could also be someone using an AI based translator?
@mastodonmigration Wow, a truly disturbing development. 😓
Thanks for posting the article. We are going to look back on these early indicators of how damaging AI is to society and wish we had done more to protect ourselves.
@mastodonmigration @metin so I am goin to talking to an AI,mwhen I am talking to a person. contaminated bei an AI.
Oh great. Now we start arguing with AI even if we don't use 'em, just because some morons like to pretend they're competent at everything, feel smug about being able to feed an AI or what? Bollocks!
Either way. If I catch anyone, it's an instant block. What the... 🤯
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