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Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Similar criticisms have probably been leveled at many other technologies in the past, such as computers in general, typewriters, pocket calculators etc.

Show me a study where they find typewriter users "consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels"

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No, but it does mean that little girls no longer learn to write greeting cards to their grandmothers in beautiful feminine handwriting. It's important to note that I was part of Generation X and, due to innate clumsiness (and being left-handed), I didn't have pretty handwriting even before computers became the norm. But I was berated a lot for that, and computers supposedly made everything worse. It was a bit of a moral panic.

    But I admit that this is not comparable to chatbots.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    … what.

    This article is about a scientific study that shows clear differences in brain activity between people who used LLMs and those who didn't. If you can't tell the difference between that and whatever the hell you're going on about, you might want to cut down on the LLM usage.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe do some self reflection first? You're missing their point and it's bigger than Saturn.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Maybe explain to me how people baselessly criticising technology (like typewriters for example) for making people dumber is the same as a scientific study showing differences in EEG activity?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    LOL - you might not want to believe that, but there is nothing to cut down. I actively steer clear of LLMs because I find them repulsive (being so confidently wrong almost all the time).

    Nevertheless, there will probably be some people who claim that thanks to LLMs we no longer need the skills for language processing, working memory, or creative writing, because LLMs can do all of this much better than humans (just like calculators can calculate a square root faster). I think that's bullshit, because LLMs just aren't capable of doing any of these things in a meaningful way.

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