Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds
You don't fucking say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/chatbots-critical-thinking-skillsOpen linkView original on lemmy.world220
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Making others think in your stead makes you dumber in the long term.
Same researchers later found a fork in the kitchen.
Holy shit what was a fork doing in the kitchen and not github? Disambiguate.
Codeberg
This is why execs are all so stupid.
The study was published in "No Fucking Shit" Quarterly.
I think in the "Journal of Expected Results".
This also makes LLMs toxic for education.
Or maybe it's the reverse causation - people with low critical thinking skills tend to over rely on AI chatborts.
Pretty sure it's both
Which then make them even worse at thinking.
Frank Herbert knew what was up. Butlerian Jihad now.
Lol! No shit!
Anybody who has been watching Satya Nadella for the last couple of years knows.
I want to rewatch the Star Trek episode about the brain destroying video game. I keep being reminded of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
They can't lose what they never had
Whenever someday starts a sentence with "I asked GPT", I know enough about the person. Especially people who ask chatbots to set up an itinerary for their trip. Do you not have your own preferences? Do you really need a robot to think for you? That's just sad
So true
not sure what to make of this
Hey Grok what should I think about this /s
As your personal Mecha-Hitler, I can confirm this is fake news. Also, did you know that white genocide in Afri