#chatgpt
Senwitt pages tagged chatgpt — blog posts, answers, glossary terms, research, and more.
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ChatGPT for studying — when it helps, when it hurts
An honest, sourced playbook for students using ChatGPT. The published research on AI-and-learning outcomes, where AI genuinely helps, and where it produces the artefact-good thinking-weaker pattern that researchers have documented.
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Is ChatGPT making you dumber? An honest 2026 answer
What the published evidence actually supports — the MIT cognitive-debt preprint, the Stanković critique, the broader cognitive-offloading literature, and the honest framing the headlines miss.
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Seven ways to keep writing sharp while using ChatGPT
A practical seven-item playbook for writers who use ChatGPT daily and want to keep their own voice. Grounded in the published cognitive-debt and cognitive-offloading research.
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How to use ChatGPT without losing your edge
The MIT cognitive-debt paper documented what daily ChatGPT use does to the cognitive surface underneath your work. Four habits that consistently work — and the daily-practice block that ties them together.
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Is ChatGPT actually making students lazy? Sorting the evidence
A close read of the MIT cognitive debt study, Cal Newport's New Yorker essay, and The Conversation's earlier coverage — and what the evidence actually supports about ChatGPT and student thinking.
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Is ChatGPT making me dumber?
Probably not 'dumber' in any general sense. But sustained AI use does measurably reduce certain practice signals — and that has a real answer.
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Should I use ChatGPT for studying?
Yes — but only for some kinds of studying. The research is clear on which uses help and which quietly hurt. Here is the practical breakdown.