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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721
> we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI
This is a very narrow test and I'm not entirely convinced it's specific to "AI" (you might be able to replicate this without it just with UI design) but it's observing a mechanism that might be relevant to the chatbot dependence some of us are already seeing in our peers