Leben mit KI führt zum „Braten“ des menschlichen Gehirns
https://www.aol.com/articles/life-ai-causing-human-brain-013231280.html
Leben mit KI führt zum „Braten“ des menschlichen Gehirns
https://www.aol.com/articles/life-ai-causing-human-brain-013231280.html
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One only has to have a few conversations with AI bros to see this. I’m glad there is an increasing body of evidence.
Watch them swarm this thread with „but Plato said books bad, learn to use tools, luddite.“
It’s incredible how we’re observing all these clearly defined detrimental effects from a technology that has only been accessible for a couple years. Who knows how terrible the long term effects are
Can we start accurately distinguishing LLMs as the article/conversation topic, when it is, and stop just throwing “AI” around broadly.
It’s like saying “life with food is making people fat”.
Damn what a sensationalist title, and nobody actually reads the article to boot.
Nobody remember how we forgot 10 or 100 of telephone number since the cellphone, of course we will forget everything else if a machine can think and remember for us.
Life with social media has caused the same thing.
It makes sense, the brain is a muscle, they atrophy if you dont use them. If all your research, work etc is done for you in an instant, when do you ever learn
We were cooked when autocorrect became standard. Try to hand write and spell basic word correctly. It’s impossbile
People clearly haven’t seen Wall-E.
> A BCG study of 1,488 professionals in the United States
…Was that sample size chosen deliberately?
It’s crazy how you can tell no one in the comments even read the article for one second.
I’ve often wondered what the upper limit on cognitive function from a “work” or processing standpoint is. Does it differ substantially between individuals or are some people just more efficient in its use (or both)? I think this phenomenon is us starting to touch the ceiling. I think of AI as a streamlining tool for cognition (in some ways) and it is letting us finally touch those limits without the guardrails that sensory perception typically imposes. It’s not quite as simple as that but the general principle applies.
The adoption of AI in the software dev workplace has essentially turned all the individual contributors into technical managers overnight. A lot of ICs never want to make that transition at all, let alone so quickly.
I have noticed this effect a long time ago, way before AI, and it was driving with Google maps.
Before handy gps guidance, I would vividly remember where I drove to, can recall those directions on paper even to this day. Places I’ve driven to with the map guidance? I can’t remember to save my life anymore
One of the reasons for degenerative brain disorders like dementia is the lack of brain stimulation. People that stop working, hanging out with people, I.e retirees get these disorders. So if you using LLMs, better buy boxes of sudoku books!
I had this thought yesterday of AI being a burnout speed-run.
im sure my boss will be understanding if i share this, then give me more adequate time to figure things out without AI. maybe even a raise!
AI was never about helping make people’s lives easier or solving problems for them. It was always about stealing all the world’s data and propping up the big corporations and billionaires. None of them would dare let themselves or their children use AI as frequently as they claim it should be used and the problems it solves are problems that didn’t exist in the first place.
Software development was „slow“ because, like all things, quality takes time. There’s no shortcut to quality and that’s why you’re seeing so many slop websites that all look the same being put together with AI + ShadCN + Tailwind. When deployed in a corporate setting, all it does is create needless churn and exponentially adds tech debt. AI does in thousands of lines what could be done in a hundred, but because it outputs quickly people like to think that they’re being productive.
It’s incredible too how this article is a whopping load of anecdotal horseshit. I’m sure the problems exist, but there are no real study results presented here
There’s always someone writing an article about the “impact on the public“ of any new popular technology. For example:
• Trains: Doctors warned women’s uteri would fly out at 30 mph.
• Novels: Critics claimed reading fiction caused „brain rot“ and fainting.
• Bicycles: „Bicycle Face“ was a fake disease invented to scare female riders.
• Photography: Artists claimed „mechanical“ pictures would murder true creativity.
• Movies: Experts feared flickering screens would cause mass blindness.
• Radio: Parents panicked that „wireless“ was a dangerous addiction for kids.
• Comics: 1950s Congress held hearings to ban „subversive“ Batman stories.
• Video Games: The Surgeon General claimed gaming produced „turnip-level“ intellects.
Not that I enjoy every conversation with AI but I want to call out that this brain fry study is referring specifically to ai super users, not those of us that had a few useless conversations with ChatGPT and got annoyed:
People experiencing AI burnout are not casually dabbling with the technology — They are creating legions of agents that need to be constantly managed, according to Tim Norton, founder of the AI integration consultancy nouvreLabs.
„That’s what’s causing the burnout,“ Norton wrote in an X post.
I am a developer and I clearly notice this. Not only since raise of agents but also line completions. These were already extremely good 1-2 years ago.
But unfortunately, it also makes me significantly more productive. I am still also learning how to use it. But recently I started to explore more of the agent features, asked copilot to finish 2 implementations and both worked perfectly. The code was good and doing what it was supposed to do. From a business perspective it’s hard to argue against the output.
The real brain fry here is the comment section that didn’t even read the article. It’s about the stress of managing multiple model outputs, not the models making their brain mush
Brain fry is being compared to autism . Not sure about that.
Yeaaaaahhh the agent-using AI weirdos are gonna have brain fry. Middle-aged programmers that have always low-key resented having to memorize one language after another will continue living peaceful, relaxed lives finally getting to build all the stuff they want to build as long as Claude and local LLM backups exist.