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    The use of LLM had a measurable impact on participants, and while the benefits were initially apparent, as we demonstrated over the course of 4 months, the LLM group’s participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring.

    https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

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      I equate it with doing those old formulas by hand in math class. If you don’t know what the formula does or how to use it, how do you expect to recall the right tool for the job?

      Or in DND speak, it’s like trying to shoehorn intelligence into a wisdom roll.

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        That would be fine if LLM was a precise tool like a calculator. My calculator doesn’t pretend to know answers to questions it doesn’t understand.

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          the irony is that LLMs are basically just calculators, horrendously complex calculators that operate purely on statistics…

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    “IQ benefits”? Lmao what fuckin nonsense. This shit aint making anyone smarter, if anything its robbing you of your ability to think critically.

    It’s garbage software with zero practical use. Whatever you’re using AI for, just learn it yourself. You’ll be better off.

    “And then I drink coffee for 58 minutes” instead of reading a book, like that’s a brag - just read a fuckin book, goddamn.

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      It’s garbage software with zero practical use.

      AI is responsible for a lot of slop but it is wrong to say it has no use. I helped my wife with a VBScript macro for Excel. There was no way I was going to learn VBScript. Chatgpt spit out a somewhat working script in minutes that needed 15 minutes of tweaking. The alternative would have been weeks of work learning a proprietary Microsoft language. That’s a waste of time.

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    What I’m getting from this exchange is that people on the left have ethical concerns about plagiarism, and don’t trust half-baked technology. They also value quality over quantity.

    I’m okay with being pigeonholed in this way. Drink all the coffee you want, dude.