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Environment & Energy

highplainsdem

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2. It's foolish to use chatbots, period. They're not truly intelligent, can give conflicting answers at

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Mon Feb 10, 2025, 12:12 PM

Feb 10

different times - and they dumb down the people using them, which has been noticed more and more, including in a new study from Microsoft:

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/

Btw, that article needed better proofreading. It had "out abilities" instead of "own abilities" and "is pot committed" instead of "is now committed" - the sorts of typos that will be missed by a spellchecker.

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Well, Well, Well: Chatbot Study Produces Weak-Sauce AI "Answers" To Climate Collapse & Other Environmental Problems [View all] hatrack Feb 10 OP

Propaganda has naturally slipped into the LLM. cachukis Feb 10 #1

It's foolish to use chatbots, period. They're not truly intelligent, can give conflicting answers at highplainsdem Feb 10 #2

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