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The delicious sizzling noise is your brain on ChatGPT

Rob Beschizza
Jun 19, 2025
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A study by researchers at MIT's Media Lab found that subjects using ChatGPT to generate SAT essays had the lowest levels of brain engagement and "consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." Moreover, those using it got lazier each time they used it, and by the end of the study were "resorting to copy-an…

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