The abilities you don't practice get lost... A human who needs an LLM to respond to a simple message... where would it take us?
Stop using LLMs in your daily writing - you have the ability to write stuff yourself, please don't loose it.
Just a wake-up call.
I started using LLMs for polishing my emails, teams messages until mid-last year and felt my ability to think and write critically (and my confidence in whatever I wrote and express myself) decreased - I felt like a constant need to verify my professional write-ups via an LLM - a thought to atleast get its feedback crossed my mind. But was it really needed? Was I not capable of writing my own emails or teams pings?
I recently came across this meme:
People give pointers to LLM and ask to convert to paragraphs and people reading paragraphs ask an LLM to convert to pointers?
What has happened to us seriously!!
Lets please stop this AI slop in our writings - its very good to help you google stuff, understand faster, implement faster.. but your daily writings and talks? Do you really need an LLM to respond to your girlfriend or boss? Start re-using your abilities before adaptation makes you loose them.
Wake up LLM language users!
You can always find several studies for and against things but as a researcher, this one did seem concerning to me.
Cognitive debt is a real thing: a recent study by MIT Media lab, run across 4 months, showed reduced performance in LLM users thinking abilities
Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.
Studies can always provide additional evidence! But use your own simple intuition and logic here - observe your own self, don't you feel a decrease in your cognitive abilities - long term thinking and ability to write when you use LLMs to "polish" your words! By simple common sense, skills not practiced vanish (you can find studies on it to satisfy your information curiosity but following your own experience can also reflect this.
The abilities you don't practice get lost... A human who needs an LLM to respond to a simple message... where would it take us?
Stop using LLMs in your daily writing - you have the ability to write stuff yourself, please don't loose it.
Just a wake-up call.
I started using LLMs for polishing my emails, teams messages until mid-last year and felt my ability to think and write critically (and my confidence in whatever I wrote and express myself) decreased - I felt like a constant need to verify my professional write-ups via an LLM - a thought to atleast get its feedback crossed my mind. But was it really needed? Was I not capable of writing my own emails or teams pings?
I recently came across this meme:
People give pointers to LLM and ask to convert to paragraphs and people reading paragraphs ask an LLM to convert to pointers?
What has happened to us seriously!!
Lets please stop this AI slop in our writings - its very good to help you google stuff, understand faster, implement faster.. but your daily writings and talks? Do you really need an LLM to respond to your girlfriend or boss? Start re-using your abilities before adaptation makes you loose them.
Wake up LLM language users!
You can always find several studies for and against things but as a researcher, this one did seem concerning to me.
Cognitive debt is a real thing: a recent study by MIT Media lab, run across 4 months, showed reduced performance in LLM users thinking abilities
Studies can always provide additional evidence! But use your own simple intuition and logic here - observe your own self, don't you feel a decrease in your cognitive abilities - long term thinking and ability to write when you use LLMs to "polish" your words! By simple common sense, skills not practiced vanish (you can find studies on it to satisfy your information curiosity but following your own experience can also reflect this.