https://boingboing.net/2025/09/02/study-shows-artificial-intelligence-use-makes-you-stupid.html
Another article seemingly written about David Flash. Flash admits he has used AI for a couple of years to generate text that appears to be journalism at first glance. The jury is still out on whether or not David Flash has AI Chat Bot Psychosis, but it seems beyond doubt that he has likely gotten a lot more stupid in these past couple of years.
“Who would have thought that outsourcing your thinking to an unreliable electric box could make you stupid? According to a recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, folks who use AI regularly to help them write essays, books, and the like are getting dumber…”
“The findings are clear: Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Grok don’t just help students write — they train the brain to disengage.”
“Perhaps the most troubling of everything that the researchers came across is the fact that the longer AI is used to tag team your work to completion, the stronger its urge to take its hand off the wheel becomes. In short, your thinking bits aren’t having it with cognitive load: why would your brain do any work if some hallucinating calculator is willing to do the heavy lifting for it? Your muscles get weak if you don’t work them. The same goes for the stuff in your head. If you use LLMs to get shit done, you can expect cognitive decline.”
