Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation | Hacker News
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Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation | Hacker News
In design, AI inspires me no more than elevator music or a business presentation. However, it often shows me what I do not want. When I ask Chat-GPT how I could better phrase something, I almost always get the most uninteresting, boring, often meaningless answer. As an author that writes to say something meaningful, get upset about this, and in res... See more
Oliver Reichenstein • AI and the Beauty of Human Flaws
The problem with language models is that while they are very good at giving you the information you want, they don’t tell you what to look for in the first place. You have to figure that out yourself, and you have to learn how to be good at asking for it. This is the metaskill that has become crucial over the last few decades, when our access to in... See more
Kasra • Reading and writing in the age of language models
Since the generative AIs have been trained on the entirety of human work — most of it mediocre — it produces “wisdom of the crowd”-like results. They may hit the mark but only because they are average.