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[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 5 days ago (25 children)

Your Brain on ChatGPT

…LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use... LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.

Outsourcing thinking from your brain to an AI literally makes you dumber, less confident in the output, and teaches you nothing.

Call me a Luddite or a hater, but if you’re one of the people who uses AI as a shortcut to actual thought or learning, I will judge you and disregard your output and opinions. Form your own basis of understanding and knowledge instead of a teaspoon deep summary that is frequently incorrect.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They say that, when making an Anki deck, using it is only half the battle because a lot of the learning comes from the act of making it yourself. That advice is older than these LLMs and it really showcases a big reason why they suck. Personally, I haven’t even used autocorrect since 2009.

Being a luddite I feel requires having a highly abstinence-only approach. Knowing what is worth off-loading and what is worth doing yourself is just being smart. I’m really glad that I don’t need to know every detail of modern life but I still take a lot of pride in knowing how quite a lot of it works.

[–] fannymcslap@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Personally, I haven’t even used autocorrect since 2009

Genuinely the weirdest flex I have ever seen.

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[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 48 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"If only I'd programmed the robot to be more careful what I wished for. Robot, experience this tragic irony for me!"

[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

NOOOOOOOOOOO

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's a repost, but i always love to see it lol

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I do to, it always ruffles a bunch of feathers.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The volume on the ruffling is up since last time, which i find very interesting. Like even if you made this bit about something i did, like websearching, i wouldn't get so tilted.

I wonder what it is about llms that gets people so defensive.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Suits really really want LLMs to be able to replace employees, so suits and sycophantic morons both get unreasonbaly tilted when they're rightfully mocked or proven fucking braindead for those wishes.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I'm sure it's a lot of things. The bottom line, though, is that the fruit is too sweet. And so you get a dynamic very similar to veganism, climate change, health-conscious eating, anti-smoking, etc., where people want to behold their fruits without feeling like they're villains for it—criticism of smoking is to criticise a person for smoking as well, you see? It becomes like a moral failing of their character. It's just insecurity.

Bitcoin didn't really catch on because, besides money laundering schemes, it doesn't really have a purpose. But AI has lots of purposes. It eases the burden of writing, it can do your homework for you, it's a better search engine because google sabotaged their own, it can generate DnD assets for "free"—and lastly, this is a really big one, it fills an emotional niche in lonely people.

I can't promise that in a world where people didn't live their whole lives in suburban houses, in small bedrooms, on their computer all day with remarkably few friends, that people wouldn't take to gen AI as much as they do, but it's certainly not helping.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Suburban households and their culture have been a disaster for the human race.

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[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 92 points 5 days ago (23 children)

Love it.

Steve Jobs once called the personal computer a bicycle for the mind; ChatGPT is a wheelchair for the mind. There is no shame in using a wheelchair if you need one, but if you don’t need one and use one anyway, you will come to need it.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 days ago

Steve Jobs also thought eating fruit could cure cancer...

I'd say chatgpt is more like a self-driving tesla stuck in huge traffic. you don't have any control, it can break down easily, you're moving slower than a bike, all the while thinking that people who chose the bike to avoid the traffic are losers.

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[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

The goddamn meta commercial where the dad is asking, "meta, how do I get my toddler to eat breakfast" makes me wants to implode every fucking time. Like you can't feed your kid?

If you can't outsmart a child, do we have a product for you!!!!

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Let's be honest though if there were sex bots AI would be even more popular than it already is

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well I have news for you, my friend.

(Shows all the weird sex AI chatbots)

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Nah, man. That won't cut it.

The day real doll bots can suck dick without me doing anything but watch and enjoy, that's the day I'll get one and become asocial.

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[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (18 children)

I delivered pizza during COVID and most people I worked with couldn't follow simple directions to an address or read a road map. If a destination didn't show up on their cellphone's navigation then they were immediately and hopelessly lost.

If you don't use and exercise your brain then it atrophies and dies. AI is going turn a lot of people into conscious vegetables.

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[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago

oh poor baby

[–] Zier@fedia.io 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Watch Wall-e to remind society how lazy and dependent on AI can end up.

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[–] ElfWord@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (53 children)

This is such a weird take.

Oh poor baby, you need a wittle spell check to make sure you don't mess up the words in your important email?

Oh little loser, you gotta have an automatic transmission to make the car go vroom vroom?

Oh Mr. has-a-life, you have to pull out Shazam instead of knowing 8 million songs by heart?

All of us use technology to make our lives easier, to supplement skills we don't want to sink perfectionist-level time into, to enjoy "good enough" results in one area or another.

This kind of holier-than-thou hyperbolic snobbery does nothing to generate actual thoughtful reflection of where to draw the line with technology dependence and only distracts and detracts from actually good critiques of generative AI's ethics and other negative effects. I wish this sub didn't allow low-effort meme posts because it's such a brain rot circle-jerk.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

I don't think the tweet is about technology in general. It is specifically targeting one technology, so I don't think it impedes "thoughtful reflection of where to draw the line with technology dependence." There are good uses of AI, certainly. Replacing the human effort necessary for art and writing, though, are definitely not good uses. A big part of what makes art important is that it is effortful - that is why people react so negatively to some postmodern and modern art that doesn't look like it took great skill to make. As for writing - the only point of writing an essay is to achieve human-to-human connection. Using ChatGPT for stereo instructions is maybe inaccurate, but not bad in the way that using ChatGPT for an essay is bad. That is why the "do you need chat gpt to fuck your wife" zinger hits: you are replacing human interactions with some bullshit gadget.

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

The author is an illustrator from what I remember. It's a totally valid point. Automatic transmission is one thing. Wasting resources on creating an image or an essay is wasteful and everyone should realize this.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can it maybe just give her an orgasm for me? I'm way to lazy to do it myself.

/it's sarcasm, you dumb fuck

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