Are AI Chatbots Making Our Thinking Uniform?
TL;DR
A new paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences warns that widespread use of chatbots and large language models may homogenize how people think and express themselves, narrowing linguistic and cognitive diversity crucial for creativity and problem-solving. The authors point to less-varied LLM-generated writing and training-data biases, and warn that social pressure to conform could affect even non-users as AI becomes more embedded in daily life and work.
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