Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1455648/using-ai-for-just-10-minutes-erodes-your-ability-to-persist-at-hard-things
https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/using-ai-for-just-10-minutes-erodes-your-ability-to-persist-at-hard-things/Open linkView original on piefed.world
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I don’t really doubt it, but I’m also old enough to remember them saying the same thing about TV, video games, and the Internet.
Tbh tech illiteracy also goes in a similar direction.
Or short form content.
I remember them saying it would ruin attention spans. They were correct, too. Mine is fucking shot.
My partner scrolls TikTok while watching TV.
It's a bit of a mixed blessing that the Internet is slowly dying; there's less to look at anywhere so I pick up a book every once in a while now instead.
Sure, but the whole reason AI responses are designed to offload instead of instruct is because they want us dependent.
Yeah it's all by design. I hate this framing around anything critical where we're expected you tie ourselves into knots to protect the status quo. "What if we made it instructive" that will still cause problems and like that would ever happen in the first place.
“10 minutes relying on an AI tool”
Very important distinction missing from the headline.
Or, there is an easier explanation:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388110139_The_Impact_of_Interruptions
Not just using llm models, AI does not exist by the way, even just using maps on the phone to navigate, I might not find my way back, where if I do it the old fashioned way I can.
Dumb argument for lame people who want to argue (incorrectly I may add) about definitions all day
You say that, yet exemplify SI, which is to say special intelligence. Or are we calling it challenged? I forget.
lmfao of course you'd go with that
Out of frustration if nothing else.
More if it give the answer of the prompt "remember what another user said 6 month ago"