AI is going to hack us.


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Apparently long term usage of AI causes people to lose cognitive function. (I'm so scared of it, I don't even want to use spellchecking n_n) It is a silver lining ar least that in the future people cheating through AI will not be smart enough to hide their cheating.
You might this link interesting. It's an article on phys.org discussing a clinical study on the effects of AI on critical thinking.
 



I mean, to be fair, people have been sucked into cults since we've had anything like spirituality or religion. This is a new variation on a very, very old theme.
Yeah, some people have always been self-deluding, and other people have always exploited that. I think this gen AI stuff just cuts out the "middlemen" so to speak, ie the cult-leader or propagandist or whatever. Now I can just fire up an app to get a friendly voice to feed my confirmation biases - and all without the pesky constraints of experience or training or a moral compass!
 

Yeah, some people have always been self-deluding, and other people have always exploited that. I think this gen AI stuff just cuts out the "middlemen" so to speak, ie the cult-leader or propagandist or whatever. Now I can just fire up an app to get a friendly voice to feed my confirmation biases - and all without the pesky constraints of experience or training or a moral compass!
Or physical constraints to coordinate countless people across the world.
 



My boss is gung-ho for using ChatGPT to assist with comms. Yes, it makes my job easier BUT it does the thinking for me, so I wouldn't be able to tell you much about the content it's producing for me because I haven't really had to think about it myself (and therefore commit it to memory). It's definitely a double-edged sword.
I have a similar issue. When I hit a wall in how to write a formula in excel or Power BI I'll ask chatgpt, often eventually get an answer that works but I don't really remember how to do it again because it did a lot of the work for me. I try understand what the functions are but find they often slip away and I don't recall how to use them again later on. Mind you, that could also be due to a lack of use since I don't need to use these formulas everyday.
 


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