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Study shows artificial intelligence use makes you stupid

Séamus Bellamy
Sep 03, 2025
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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 :

Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weak…

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