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Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills

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    I felt it happen realtime everytime, I still use it for questions but ik im about to not be able to think crtically for the rest of the day, its a last resort if I cant find any info online or any response from discords/forums

    Its still useful for coding imo, I still have to think critically, it just fills some tedious stuff in.

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    It was hella useful for research in college and it made me think more because it kept giving me useful sources and telling me the context and where to find it, i still did the work and it actually took longer because I wouldnt commit to topics or keep adding more information. Just dont have it spit out your essay, it sucks at that, have it spit out topics and info on those topics with sources, then use that to build your work.

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      It was hella useful for research in college and it made me think more because it kept giving me useful sources and telling me the context and where to find it, i still did the work and it actually took longer because I wouldnt commit to topics or keep adding more information. Just dont have it spit out your essay, it sucks at that, have it spit out topics and info on those topics with sources, then use that to build your work.

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      Google used to be good, but this is far superior, I used bings chatgpt when I was in school idk whats good now (it only gave a paragraph max and included sources for each sentence)

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        Looking up the Vilvaladirt, I am guessing it is a group of Let's Players who do a Mystery Science Theater 3,000 take on their gameplay? If so, that would be neat.

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        These guys. Greg the garlic farmer is their 4th wall breaking guy.

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          Oh you are actually trying to say that AI isn't a stain on existence. Weird.

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          I'm saying it is what it is.

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            Google used to be good, but this is far superior, I used bings chatgpt when I was in school idk whats good now (it only gave a paragraph max and included sources for each sentence)

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            How did you manage to actually use bing gpt? I've tried like 20 times and it's wrong the majority of the time

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              How did you manage to actually use bing gpt? I've tried like 20 times and it's wrong the majority of the time

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              It worked for school stuff well, I always added "prioritize factual sources with .edu " or something like that. Specify that it is for a research paper and tell it to look for stuff how you would.

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              • hiro8811@lemmy.worldH [email protected]

                Also your ability to search information on the web. Most people I've seen got no idea how to use a damn browser or how to search effectively, ai is gonna fuck that ability completely

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                To be fair, the web has become flooded with AI slop. Search engines have never been more useless. I've started using kagi and I'm trying to be more intentional about it but after a bit of searching it's often easier to just ask claude

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                  It worked for school stuff well, I always added "prioritize factual sources with .edu " or something like that. Specify that it is for a research paper and tell it to look for stuff how you would.

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                  Only time I told it to be factual was looking at 4k laptops, it gave me 5 laptops, 4 marked as 4k, 0 of the 5 were actually 4k.

                  That was last year though so maybe it's improved by now

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                    Counterpoint - if you must rely on AI, you have to constantly exercise your critical thinking skills to parse through all its bullshit, or AI will eventually Darwin your ass when it tells you that bleach and ammonia make a lemon cleanser to die for.

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                      Only time I told it to be factual was looking at 4k laptops, it gave me 5 laptops, 4 marked as 4k, 0 of the 5 were actually 4k.

                      That was last year though so maybe it's improved by now

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                      I wouldnt use it on current info like that only scraped data, like using it on history classes itll be useful, using it for sales right now definitely not

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                        Let me ask chatgpt what I think about this

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                          It’s going to remove all individuality and turn us into a homogeneous jelly-like society. We all think exactly the same since AI “smoothes out” the edges of extreme thinking.

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                            I don’t think those people are still the majority in 20 years…

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                            20 years? Do you know how much damage can be done in 20 years?

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                              I wouldnt use it on current info like that only scraped data, like using it on history classes itll be useful, using it for sales right now definitely not

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                              Ive also tried using it for old games but at the time it said wailord was the heaviest Pokemon (the blimp whale in fact does not weigh more than the sky scraper).

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                                20 years? Do you know how much damage can be done in 20 years?

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                                20 years is not soo long..

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                                  It’s going to remove all individuality and turn us into a homogeneous jelly-like society. We all think exactly the same since AI “smoothes out” the edges of extreme thinking.

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                                  Copilot told me you're wrong and that I can't play with you anymore.

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                                    Ive also tried using it for old games but at the time it said wailord was the heaviest Pokemon (the blimp whale in fact does not weigh more than the sky scraper).

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                                    again not a usecase id use it for, its basically a better search engine that summarizes and skips through the ads and bs on the front page

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                                      Ive also tried using it for old games but at the time it said wailord was the heaviest Pokemon (the blimp whale in fact does not weigh more than the sky scraper).

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                                      if you needed to find a source for the heaviest pokemon say that and you have a better chance, otherwise you get random comments its scraped

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                                        Ive also tried using it for old games but at the time it said wailord was the heaviest Pokemon (the blimp whale in fact does not weigh more than the sky scraper).

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                                        Honestly, i've had fairly good luck with AI, im not sure how yall havent, its really not that bad, I typically gotta make it bad on purpose for fun.

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                                          Ive also tried using it for old games but at the time it said wailord was the heaviest Pokemon (the blimp whale in fact does not weigh more than the sky scraper).

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                                          When all the hw answers sites put up paywalls, id get the steps to do the problem off chatgpt, id try to find it off google first, see the answer with paywall then try chatgpt.

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