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This is a paper for a MIT study. Three groups of participants where tasked to write an essay. One of them was allowed to use a LLM. These where the results:

The participants mental activity was also checked repeatedly via EEG. As per the papers abstract:

EEG revealed significant differences in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

do they themselves feel it is their work?

Why should they care? They've gone into this artificial situation for money and they're just copying/writing words to get paid. It's similar to school in that sense. Pointless work in order to please people in power.