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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by hedora on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @12:39PM (#45117838)
The experimental setup is hopelessly flawed. It assumes that people’s tasks will remain unchanged in the presence of an LLM.

If the computer writes the essay, then the human that’s responsible for producing good essays is going to pick up new (probably broader) skills really fast.

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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by efnx on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:45PM (#45118557)
Sounds like a hypothesis! You should do a study on that.
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