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Posted on 06/22/2025 7:59:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
ChatGPT can harm an individual’s critical thinking over time, a study released this month suggests.
Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab asked subjects to write several SAT essays and separated subjects into three groups — using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, using Google’s search engine and using nothing, which they called the “brain‑only” group. Each subject’s brain was monitored through electroencephalography (EEG), which measured the writer’s brain activity through multiple regions in the brain.
They discovered that subjects who used ChatGPT over a few months had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels,” according to the study.
The study found that the ChatGPT group initially used the large language model (LLM) to ask structural questions for their essay, but near the end of the study, they were more likely to copy and paste their essay entirely.
Those who used Google’s search engine were found to have moderate brain engagement, but the “brain-only” group showed the “strongest, wide-ranging networks.”
The findings suggest using LLMs can harm a user’s cognitive function over time, especially in younger users. It comes as educators continue to navigate teaching when artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly accessible for cheating.
“What really motivated me to put it out now before waiting for a full peer review is that I am afraid in 6-8 months, there will be some policymaker who decides, ‘let’s do GPT kindergarten.’ I think that would be absolutely bad and detrimental,” the study’s main author Nataliya Kosmyna told Time magazine. “Developing brains are at the highest risk.”
However, using AI in education doesn’t appear to be slowing down. In April, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to incorporate AI into U.S. classrooms.
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Search engines started the process. AI will finish the job.
I don’t know what to say about this. Let me ask ChatGPT what my reply should be.
I started off in quantum mechanics but now thanks to ChatGPT I’m coloring in books and trying to stay inside the lines. I didn’t have that problem before and this may explain it.
pretty much the same as constantly looking up the answers instead of thinking things through
Everything I hear about front-facing cameras, social-media, instagram, AI - it all turns one’s brain to mush.
I think Ted Kaczynski was on to something....
Now do “30 years in the US Senate”
Good one.
Just another new thing I’m trying to get through life without ever using. Similar to Siri and all that.
*IF* true, this may be the single worst EO in all that remains of all US and western history.
The solution is to use your mind. I usually use a piece of paper or mind to solve math problems, before I confirm with a calculator.
Luckily I won’t have this problem because I use Grok instead of ChatGPT. 🤡
A rogue AI had the solution to this problem.
Bribe the people evaluating the students and get the evaluators to publish articles saying AI improves human intelligence!
I’ve done professional work involving non-public genAI and so far it’s best described as a 4th grader with a perfect memory.
In other words, great at correlating insane amounts of information (that’s the whole method) but in human terms it’s wildly naive. Without ‘training’ in general purpose it would be like a dumb liberal because that’s what the MSM inputs give it.
In isolated non-public instances also naive. It’ll tell you *what* accurately and just as you prompt it but not why — and don’t ask it to extrapolate, that’s how you get “hallucinations” (fake content) that will be silly, embarassing, or catastrophic depending on what you counted on it to do.
IF you recognize these limitations and IF you use it within those bounds, a great aid. That however requires you already know your subject so you know what to accept, what to ignore, and how to train it.
Theoretically a really smart educator group could train it to actually help kids, but since people both knowledgeable in these topics and also in education are unicorns, keep it away from education please!
ChatGPT and similar: Assisting in dumbing down the online world. Most everyone publishing a “writing” product now uses this creativity cheat. “Hurtling toward Idiocracy...”
PS I have never used or even investigated any AI product.
Kamala has the perfect Venn Diagram to show you, that would graphically illustrate this point. She’s waiting for someone to ask her to explain this phenomena.
To include students, of course.
hah!
Flawed test set-up!
After three months of intense daily use of ChatGPT, or Google, or nothing, the subjects should then have been require to write their SAT essays WITHOUT any assistance.
Then it would be legitimate to say that ChatGPT-users declined in neural, language, or critical thinking skills.
I use Microsoft Copilot, and I find forcing it to break down and acknowledge its liberal/leftist bias actually sharpens my critical thinking and linguistic skills.
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