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Saturday, 21st June 2025

Is it safe to say that LLMs are, in essence, making us "dumber"?

No! Please do not use the words like “stupid”, “dumb”, “brain rot”, "harm", "damage", and so on. It does a huge disservice to this work, as we did not use this vocabulary in the paper, especially if you are a journalist reporting on it.

FAQ for Your Brain on ChatGPT, a paper that has attracted a lot of low quality coverage

# 1:47 am / ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-ethics

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