Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
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Re: Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
#2It seems this study has been discussed on HN before, though was recently revised very late December 2025.
Re: Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
#3Article seems long, need to run it through an LLM.
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#4Article seems long, need to run it through an LLM.
When you're done, let us know so we can aggregate your summarized comment with the rest of the thread comments to back out key, human informed, findings.
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#5Article seems long, need to run it through an LLM.
Doesn't look like anything to me
Re: Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
#6Curious what the long-term effects from the current LLM-based "AI" systems embedded in virtually everything and pushed aggressively will be in let's say 10 years, any strong opinions or predictions on this topic?
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#7Dont even need to read the article if you been using em. You already know just as well as I do how bad it gets.
A door has been opened that cant be closed and will trap those who stay too long. Good luck!
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#8“LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work” - why are these studies always so laughably bad?
The last one I saw was about smartphone users who do a test and then quit their phone for a month and do the test again and surprisingly do better the second time. Can anyone tell me why they might have paid more attention, been more invested, and done better on the test the second time round right after a month of quitting their phone?
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#9Curious what the long-term effects from the current LLM-based "AI" systems embedded in virtually everything and pushed aggressively will be in let's say 10 years, any strong opinions or predictions on this topic?
It'll be a lot like giving children all the answers without teaching them how to get the answers for themselves.
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#10> Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use