Flutterby™! : Accumulation of Cognitive Debt & ChatGPT

The authors of that Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task paper that I linked to a few days ago are managing the media exposure wonderfully, today it's Time: ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study. The juicy bits in this article start at "Post publication", including:

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.