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I do not understand why people are sharing this thread. This excerpt clearly says that people who used AI to help with menial fractions for 10 minutes then did a worse job when LLM help was removed than people who were never given that help. That is in line with the study’s statement.

The person who wrote that thread teaches a class that cites LLMs as positive to human progress as a given, just mired in bad pitches. IDK what to say other than “Have you observed the world” because I have watched people use them for “menial” tasks, and they do in fact start sucking at many things.

Lots of studies show that human brains will flail and quit tasks when a tool is revoked. Calculators absolutely make us less willing to do math. The difference between an LLM and a calculator is that the calculator won’t offer to parent your children or do your job.