PsyPost: ChatGPT acts as a “cognitive crutch” that weakens memory, new research suggests. “A recent experiment provides evidence that relying on artificial intelligence to help study new material tends to reduce how much information students remember weeks later. The findings suggest that while these tools can speed up initial learning, they might actually weaken the deep mental processing […]

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