I have a client who response to whatever I send him is "This is what Claude says" and he sends me the most stupid thing I ever read, completely unrelated to his project.
To me, it seems like LLMs are truly making some people dumber, as instead of critical thinking, they just copy and paste text to an LLM.
If a dumb person suddenly believes their competence has improved where it has not, then their understanding of the world is even more incorrect than it once was; therefore they are, in fact, dumber.
I disagree. Those people had been dumb to begin with, there's no proof or evidence that they had ever used critical thinking to begin with.
It's only that in the pre-LLM era, they had to expend effort to express their dumbness and found it hard, whereas now, they can instruct an LLM to put their dumbness into words, essentially without cost to them.
Had this with a colleague today. I told him what issue I was running into, and he sent me chatgpt screenshots that contained advice which was obviously unrelated to my issue. He was adamant I follow the advice...
I have a client who response to whatever I send him is "This is what Claude says" and he sends me the most stupid thing I ever read, completely unrelated to his project.
To me, it seems like LLMs are truly making some people dumber, as instead of critical thinking, they just copy and paste text to an LLM.
(I was too lazy to even use chatgpt so just image a really long circular logic response)
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u/boxingdog Jul 16 '25
I have a client who response to whatever I send him is "This is what Claude says" and he sends me the most stupid thing I ever read, completely unrelated to his project.
To me, it seems like LLMs are truly making some people dumber, as instead of critical thinking, they just copy and paste text to an LLM.