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c/fuck_ai · by treehugger6@lemmy.world · 45d

Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/chatbots-critical-thinking-skills

You don't fucking say

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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 30 pts · 45d (3 replies)

Making others think in your stead makes you dumber in the long term.

Same researchers later found a fork in the kitchen.

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 45d (1 reply)

Holy shit what was a fork doing in the kitchen and not github? Disambiguate.

BOplaid@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 45d

Codeberg

criss_cross@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 45d

This is why execs are all so stupid.

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 45d (1 reply)

The study was published in "No Fucking Shit" Quarterly.

HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 2 pts · 42d

I think in the "Journal of Expected Results".

smaximov@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 45d (2 replies)

Or maybe it's the reverse causation - people with low critical thinking skills tend to over rely on AI chatborts.

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 6 pts · 45d

Pretty sure it's both

EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 45d

Which then make them even worse at thinking.

soratoyuki@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 45d

Frank Herbert knew what was up. Butlerian Jihad now.

o0evillusion0o@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 45d

Lol! No shit!

eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 45d

Anybody who has been watching Satya Nadella for the last couple of years knows.

HuePony@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 45d (2 replies)

They can't lose what they never had

treehugger6@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 45d

Whenever someday starts a sentence with "I asked GPT", I know enough about the person. Especially people who ask chatbots to set up an itinerary for their trip. Do you not have your own preferences? Do you really need a robot to think for you? That's just sad

BOplaid@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 45d

So true

solrize@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 45d

I want to rewatch the Star Trek episode about the brain destroying video game. I keep being reminded of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

dumnezero@piefed.social · 2 pts · 43d

As AI tools are becoming more sophisticated and accessible, manipulated images and misleading headlines are becoming more common. AI can be part of the solution, and has proved useful in helping users identify fake content – but there’s a cost to using it this way, the new research suggests. An over-dependence on AI to help figure out what’s real on the internet can lead to trouble making those judgments.

This also makes LLMs toxic for education.

brainwashed@feddit.org · 1 pts · 45d (2 replies)

not sure what to make of this

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 45d (1 reply)

Hey Grok what should I think about this /s

tixnou@feddit.cl · 6 pts · 45d

As your personal Mecha-Hitler, I can confirm this is fake news. Also, did you know that white genocide in Afri