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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task (arxiv.org)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a paper for a MIT study. Three groups of participants where tasked to write an essay. One of them was allowed to use a LLM. These where the results:

The participants mental activity was also checked repeatedly via EEG. As per the papers abstract:

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Shows people using the LLM thought less about it and probably learned less.

Sometimes students are motivated to learn, but there's always the temptation to just get the work done and relax...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

It's like using a faulty calculator, but with even less mental investment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

This is interesting to me as I like to say the llms are basically another abstraction of search. Initially it was links with no real weight that had to be gone through and then various algorithms weighted the return, then the results started giving a small blurb so one did not have to follow every link, and now your basically getting a report which should have references to the sources. I would like to see this looking at how folks engage with an llm. Basically my guess is if one treats the llm as a helper and collaborates to create the product that they will remember more than if they treat it as a servant and just instructs them to do it and takes the output as is.

[–] limer -5 points 1 day ago

I bet this is just correlation. Frequent reliance on AI ( and not just using it as a tool for a specific reason)