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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab (www.media.mit.edu)
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Edit: There's a blog post on the failings of the study and the communication around it: Clickbait Neuroscience: Lessons from “Your Brain on ChatGPT” – Mind Brain Education

EEG revealed significant differences in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use.

Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It’s so easy to pontificate instead of actually doing studies, right?

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Maybe I was not eloquent enough, but I don't object to the research being done. I think though that the result is the expected one and therefore it is not noteworthy enough to post on here. Doubtless this paper with end up highly cited.

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's a great observation!...

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Fuck yeah. Lets do it!