So… is ChatGPT making us dumb? A viral MIT study, what it actually found, and the delicious irony of how we consume research. (Steffi Kieffer, Substack)
- MIT study on AI's impact limited to 9 students, unable to generalize.
- Students who relied on ChatGPT then wrote like it, the "contamination effect".
- Use AI as a research assistant, not a replacement brain.
