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[–] protonslive@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

I find this very offensive, wait until my chatgpt hears about this! It will have a witty comeback for you just you watch!

[–] Joeyfingis@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

Let me ask chatgpt what I think about this

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Also your ability to search information on the web. Most people I've seen got no idea how to use a damn browser or how to search effectively, ai is gonna fuck that ability completely

[–] bromosapiens@lemm.ee 12 points 6 days ago

Gen Zs are TERRIBLE at searching things online in my experience. I’m a sweet spot millennial, born close to the middle in 1987. Man oh man watching the 22 year olds who work for me try to google things hurts my brain.

[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

To be fair, the web has become flooded with AI slop. Search engines have never been more useless. I've started using kagi and I'm trying to be more intentional about it but after a bit of searching it's often easier to just ask claude

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Counterpoint - if you must rely on AI, you have to constantly exercise your critical thinking skills to parse through all its bullshit, or AI will eventually Darwin your ass when it tells you that bleach and ammonia make a lemon cleanser to die for.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It’s going to remove all individuality and turn us into a homogeneous jelly-like society. We all think exactly the same since AI “smoothes out” the edges of extreme thinking.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago

Copilot told me you're wrong and that I can't play with you anymore.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Vs text books? What's the difference?

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The variety of available text books, reviewed for use by educators vs autocratic loving tech bros pushing black box solutions to the masses.

Just off thebtopnofnmy head.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tech Bros aren't really reviewing it individually.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago
[–] j4yt33@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

I've only used it to write cover letters for me. I tried to also use it to write some code but it would just cycle through the same 5 wrong solutions it could think of, telling me "I've fixed the problem now"

[–] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I felt it happen realtime everytime, I still use it for questions but ik im about to not be able to think crtically for the rest of the day, its a last resort if I cant find any info online or any response from discords/forums

Its still useful for coding imo, I still have to think critically, it just fills some tedious stuff in.

[–] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It was hella useful for research in college and it made me think more because it kept giving me useful sources and telling me the context and where to find it, i still did the work and it actually took longer because I wouldnt commit to topics or keep adding more information. Just dont have it spit out your essay, it sucks at that, have it spit out topics and info on those topics with sources, then use that to build your work.

[–] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 points 6 days ago (25 children)

Google used to be good, but this is far superior, I used bings chatgpt when I was in school idk whats good now (it only gave a paragraph max and included sources for each sentence)

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Their reasoning seems valid - common sense says the less you do something the more your skill atrophies - but this study doesn't seem to have measured people's critical thinking skills. It measured how the subjects felt about their skills. People who feel like they're good at a job might not feel as adequate when their job changes to evaluating someone else's work. The study said the subjects felt that they used their analytical skills less when they had confidence in the AI. The same thing happens when you get a human assistant - as your confidence in their work grows you scrutinize it less. But that doesn't mean you yourself become less skillful. The title saying use of AI "kills" critical thinking skill isn't justified, and is very clickbaity IMO.

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I use it to write code for me sometimes, saving me remembering the different syntax and syntactic sugar when I hop between languages. And I use to answer questions about things I wonder - it always provides references. So far it's been quite useful. And for all that people bitch and piss and cry giant crocodile tears while gnashing their teeth - I quite enjoy Apple AI. It's summaries have been amazing and even scarily accurate. No, it doesn't mean Siri's good now, but the rest of it's pretty amazing.

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