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Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills (gizmodo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University found that the more humans lean on AI tools to complete their tasks, the less critical thinking they do, making it more difficult to call upon the skills when they are needed.

It's one thing to try to do and then ask for help (as you did), it's another to just ask it to "do x" without thought or effort which is what the study is about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

So the study just checks how many people not yet learned how to properly use GenAI

I think there exists a curve from not trusting to overtrusting than back to not blindly trusting outputs (because you suffered consequences from blindly trusting)

And there will always be people blindly trusting bullshit, we have that longer than genAI. We have enough populists proving that you can tell many people just anything and they believe.