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Is AI Giving You Donkey Brains?

2025-06-28 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@SimGunther 2025-06-28

GPS already gives us donkey brain in spatial awareness, so this just makes the problem way worse but for all areas of our brain.

151 15 replies
@dopaminefield 2025-06-28

AI make me dumb, YouTube reaction videos make me smartestest

128 4 replies
@KayButtonJay 2025-06-28

Turns out not thinking is bad

98 4 replies
@iverbrnstad791 2025-06-28

That dumb barrier to effect can be damn terrifying. My wife is a PhD in cell biology, from a global top 15 uni, she's working on gene editing for a UN lab, yet as a highschooler she got scolded for not grasping some programming homework, to this day she's convinced that programming as a whole is hard and scary.

93 6 replies
@TheVisualDigitalArts 2025-06-28

I have found that auto correct has been making my spelling worse I can't Imagine what AI is doing to peoples brains.

51 6 replies
@MadMetalMacho 2025-06-28

Plot twist: study was written by AI

43 9 replies
@yourfriendpablo 2025-06-28

"really good and really bad at the same time"... perfect way of putting it

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@tomzimny7408 2025-06-28

Whenever I read an article, I have to sift through 10 paragraphs of a life story before I get to the recipe.

21 7 replies
@kahnfatman 2025-06-28

I teach Haskell in German as an ESL Vietnamese. The objective is to be better at 3 things: - German - Programming - Communication skills And I feel exhausted after doing that. It’s a form of mental and emotional exercise.

21 1 replies
@rmidifferent8906 2025-06-29

So basically the takeaway is - use AI as little as possible, especially if you are just starting out. The competition might be faster now, but they will fall behind and you can always start using AI more if necessary

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