Do you think AI is making you lazier and less original?
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MIT just dropped a fascinating (and slightly scary) study.
They had participants write SAT-style essays using:
ChatGPT
Google
Just their brains
What happened?
ChatGPT made it easier to get words on the page
But essays were “soulless” and all sounded the same
People couldn’t remember what they wrote later
Brain activity was low the whole time
The group that wrote without AI?
Higher creativity
More original ideas
Actually remembered what they wrote
As users of AI, this raises a big question:
Do you think AI is making you lazier and less original?
Is that something you’d want to fix, or are you okay trading effort for convenience?
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