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Lavina G's avatar

Yes, I remember that I naturally figured this out while using AI. Thus, within a week, I reduced the usage for AI for exercises such as analysis, thinking and evaluation. I started to be mindful and question the situation & text without AI by my multiple ways to think. LLM can hamper our critical thinking agreed. The place to best use them imo is for knowledge database and collection purposes. This might enable us to know things which we may be unaware of.

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Arun Palanichami's avatar

That's interesting, thanks for sharing! I agree - AI definitely helps us become less biased by exposing different viewpoints. One thing i am still figuring out is finding the right balance of AI use. I think they can be great for initial research and final editing but wonder how others have learnt to use it for other use cases (eg: storylining, first drafts, finding analogies, and polishing personal experiences) without getting distracted.

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Lavina G's avatar

Yes how to lend creative areas of human skill to artificial intelligence. I received already existing storylines from some novels. Haha.

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Gowri N Kishore's avatar

I find it darkly fascinating that the crux of this essay, which is how LLMs derail our thinking or make us lazy thinkers, was put together with the help of an LLM! I look forward to reading your Part 2 on how you deal with this internal inconsistency.

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