Re:Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT bof...
by incomingpain on Thursday June 19, 2025 @09:28AM
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A hammer can be so easily misused in that you can try to knock in nails using the claw side.
How come nobody is telling them to use the other side? If the hammer doesnt have instructions on the side to say to use the hammer side, then it's being used exactly as intended.
Re:Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT bof...
by probably_wrong on Thursday June 19, 2025 @09:42AM
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I have seen here and there people try to use the wrong side of a hammer, usually either small children or people with no experience at all using hammers. But the second you show them the right way it sticks: the sides are visually different and, more important, the right side works better.
What I've never seen in my life is a random group of 9 people (per the study) where all of them consistently use the wrong side of the hammer repeatedly across four sessions.
This feels like victim blaming.
If the tool can be so easily misused that the participants in this study "used it wrong" by default, then were are the safeguards? How are these companies nudging the users in the "right" direction?
The way I see it, if there's nothing in the system telling you that you're using it "wrong" then you're using it exactly as intended.