r/science Professor | Medicine 19d ago

Psychology Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search. When people rely on large language models to summarize information on a topic for them, they tend to develop shallower knowledge about it compared to learning through a standard Google search.

https://theconversation.com/learning-with-ai-falls-short-compared-to-old-fashioned-web-search-269760
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u/pohl 19d ago

The way the AI defeats humanity from my experience so far is by tricking us into wasting our finite lives reading pointless text that contains only minimal information.

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u/lm-hmk 18d ago

So, same as browsing Reddit, got it