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Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by baCist on Monday May 11, 2026 @08:05AM (#48093928)
AI is unlikely to make people like me, or most already established professionals, lazy. But it absolutely could affect younger people who are still learning and building fundamentals.

That raises a pretty serious question about regulating AI usage in education, and it’s surprising how little attention that discussion still gets.

Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by ramon156 on Monday May 11, 2026 @08:28AM (#48094120)
We haven't even discussed as a society what might go wrong with LLMs, and we're already seeing what is going wrong. That's how hard we failed as a society.
Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by dotancohen on Monday May 11, 2026 @09:08AM (#48094504)
What does "discuss as a society" mean? Pass regulations? Religious doctrine? Warfare?
Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by Capricorn2481 on Monday May 11, 2026 @09:13AM (#48094565)
Maybe not sneaking huge concessions to AI in omnibus bills would be a start.

Not getting teachers in trouble when they can clearly tell their students are submitting AI essays.

But we're still just letting kids use their phone in class, and our lawmakers are just learning what Facebook is. AI is going to "happen" to us, we are not serious enough to discuss it.

Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by dariusj18 on Monday May 11, 2026 @12:48PM (#48097441)
I think that is the role speculative fiction, like sci-fi, takes.
Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by dotancohen on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:04PM (#48097628)
As Asimov and Roddenberry envisioned it, yes. Certainly not as the drivel that carries the sci-fi label today.
Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by toilet on Monday May 11, 2026 @08:59AM (#48094407)
Boy, everyone is stupid except me.
Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by Capricorn2481 on Monday May 11, 2026 @09:10AM (#48094525)
It doesn't really read that way, more like we should be aware of how using LLMs could affect a child in an educational environment.
Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by throwatdem12311 on Monday May 11, 2026 @09:06AM (#48094482)
“Wow, everywhere I go everyone smells like they stepped in dog poop”
Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by beej71 on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:22AM (#48095390)
Speaking for myself, I feel a difference if I stop using AI for a week and just rely on regular web searches. And I have a fair amount of professional experience

Also, speaking for academia, AI is basically all we talk about now when it comes to curriculum and instruction. That's not to say that we only rely on AI, or something like that, but we talk a lot about how to get basically anything done now. It's the biggest learning experience we've ever had as instructors, and I suspect we'll be trying to figure it out for a long time to come.

Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by coldtea on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:50AM (#48095755)
>AI is unlikely to make people like me, or most already established professionals, lazy.

Lol, that's already a lazy take.

Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by blitzar on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:51AM (#48095779)
most already established professionals are lazy
Re:Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb by senectus1 on Monday May 11, 2026 @06:54PM (#48101820)
yeah, I've found that as i get older (especially after having kids) it gets harder to keep your edge. AI is making it easier to do things, but its making it harder to stay sharp.

I feel like its akin to an addiction, you start using it and its amazing, then you need to use it more to get the same level of performance... eventually (I'm expecting) you're dependent on it just to function in your role.