This study is being massively misinterpreted. College students who wrote an essay with LLM help engaged less with the essay & thus were less engaged when (a total of 9 people) were asked to do similar work weeks later. LLMs do not rot your brain. Being lazy & not learning does.
ETHICS
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Should humanity have evolved? Ethical implications explored
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Do you think it would have been better if humans had not evolved?
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Snorkel Celebrates Black Excellence in Tech Innovation
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At Snorkel, we honor Juneteenth by celebrating Black freedom, resilience, and recommitting to inclusion. Innovation thrives with equity and diversity, and we celebrate the many voices, contributions and leadership of the Black community in tech and beyond.
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Tiffany Farriss Speaks on Open Source AI Collaboration
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Our own Tiffany Farriss will be a speaker at Friday's Community-Driven Sessions on open source and digital collaboration: Advancing Inclusive and Sustainable Solutions with Open Source AI! #opensource #foss #unopensourceweek #un
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LLMs Saved AI From Surveillance and Ad Targeting
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people don't realize it, but LLMs saved AI if we didn't stumble into general intelligence most people would still be working on vision, which was most useful for human surveillance and ad targeting.. inherently evil technology
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Midjourney video launch, OpenAI scrutiny, and AI job trends
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Top stories in AI today: – Midjourney's long-awaited video model
– AI watchdogs detail OpenAI concerns
– Automate browser tasks with natural language
– MIT study: ChatGPT’s detrimental cognitive impacts
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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Signal Refuses AI Integration to Protect User Privacy
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'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal
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MIT: ChatGPT Diminishes Memory and Neural Connections
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MIT tested ChatGPT’s impact on student brains:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 19 juin 2025
—54 students wrote essays—1 group used ChatGPT, 1 used Google, 1 used nothing
—83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote from their essays minutes later.
—Scans showed neural connections dropped from 79 to 42pic.twitter.com/EIF0RyQ4YrMIT tested ChatGPT's impact on student brains: —54 students wrote essays—1 group used ChatGPT, 1 used Google, 1 used nothing
—83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote from their essays minutes later.
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OpenAI Podcast: GPT-5 Summer Launch, Naming Strategy, Elon Competition
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OpenAI launched a new podcast, with CEO Sam Altman sharing new details, including: —GPT-5 will launch sometime this summer
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ChatGPT Causes Massive Cognitive Regression According to Study
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83.3% of ChatGPT users are unable to cite a sentence they "wrote" 5 minutes ago. It's not a writing aid, it's DIGITAL LOBOTOMY. We are witnessing massive cognitive regression.