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sarchertech on Sept 4, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leadi...

Is your hypothesis that very smart people are much, much less likely to be able to remember quotes from essays they wrote with LLM assistance than dumber people.

I wouldn’t bet on that being the case.

stackskipton on Sept 4, 2025 [–]

No, my hypothesis is this is happening to people at very selective school, the damage it's doing at less selective schools is much much greater.

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