Post AvBoOOwEJlg0cfmcs4 by cwebber@social.coop
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 (DIR) Post #AvBoOGnmZIALO9llaq by cwebber@social.coop
       2025-06-16T12:18:02Z
       
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       Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulationof Cognitive Debt when Using an AIAssistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872Fascinating paper. It's long, 200 pages; you can read the intro and the Discussion section and get much out of it already though, but they do their homework.Effects of LLM usage on memory retention and task execution:- LLM users do get judged well by human and LLM judges for their essays- Can't remember them- Low cognitive activation- Essays are mostly the same
       
 (DIR) Post #AvBoOOwEJlg0cfmcs4 by cwebber@social.coop
       2025-06-16T12:19:39Z
       
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       HT to @hailey for linking this one; it's really good to see something this robust.I think many of us have suspected that this is the kind of effect one would have when using LLMs heavily: you don't learn, you don't remember, you become a conduit for the LLM tooling. But here's some clear information.Comparison to search engine usage is also done in the paper.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvBq0cx8lAef2y060e by thygrrr@tiggi.es
       2025-06-16T13:14:02Z
       
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       @cwebber 200 pages? No problem, I'll have Claude summarize it for me.