A recent and new study was conducted in MIT. The result from this study really made me stop and think about how I use ChatGPT and other AI tools every day.
According to this study, people who use ChatGPT a lot may become lazy thinkers without even knowing it. Some people were asked to write essays using only their own knowledge, while others used Google search, and another group used ChatGPT. The researchers found that the people who relied on ChatGPT finished faster, but their essays were less creative and often too simple.
The most shocking and supprising thing about this latest study was that the study showed our brains work less when we let AI do all the hard parts for us. It’s like when I use a calculator for simple math instead of trying to solve it myself—over time, my mind gets used to taking shortcuts.
According to the researchers , thisproblem was “metacognitive laziness,” which means people stop thinking deeply because they trust the AI too much. Worse still, after using ChatGPT a lot, people struggled to remember what they wrote later on.
what does that tell us , we might be losing not just our writing skills but also our memory, this is so scary.
This study is a big lesson for all of us big lesson for all of us. AI can be helpful, when it comes to checking My grammers or quick facts, I use it. But if I let it write my thoughts every time, my own ideas and creativity might get weaker. I don’t want to become someone who can’t write a good paragraph without help.
I could not help but to Think about my own habits. From now on, I plan to use AI more carefully. For example, when writing for my blog, I will try to write the first draft myself, then maybe use AI only to polish my words. I want to keep my brain active and my ideas fresh.
In the end, this study is not saying we should stop using ChatGPT. It’s a warning that we should not depend on it for everything. Like any tool, it works best when we use it wisely and still do our own thinking. I hopeThis dose not get out of hand .