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Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.…

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

NYT: They asked an A.I. chatbot questions. The answers sent them spiraling. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html (archived at

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

Generative AI in Science: Applications, Challenges, and Emerging Questions
Ryan Harries, Cornelia Lawson, Philip Shapira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08310 h…

Generative AI in Science: Applications, Challenges, and Emerging Questions
This paper examines the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) on scientific practices, conducting a qualitative review of selected literature to explore its applications, benefits, and challenges. The review draws on the OpenAlex publication database, using a Boolean search approach to identify scientific literature related to GenAI (including large language models and ChatGPT). Thirty-nine highly cited papers and commentaries are reviewed and qualitatively coded. Results are cat…

I'm pretty floored by journalists on NYT Hard Fork asking @… how she could research a book without ChatGPT or generative AI.
The evidence is quite clear that these tools add plausible-sounding falsehoods to text and journalists have a special responsibility to not contaminate the stream of verified facts.

Do Students Write Better Post-AI Support? Effects of Generative AI Literacy and Chatbot Interaction Strategies on Multimodal Academic Writing
Yueqiao Jin, Kaixun Yang, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Dragan Ga\v{s}evi\'c, Lixiang Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04398

Do Students Write Better Post-AI Support? Effects of Generative AI Literacy and Chatbot Interaction Strategies on Multimodal Academic Writing
Academic writing increasingly involves multimodal tasks requiring students to integrate visual information and textual arguments. While generative AI (GenAI) tools, like ChatGPT, offer new pathways for supporting academic writing, little is known about how students' GenAI literacy influences their independent multimodal writing skills or how chatbot interaction strategies (passive reactive vs. proactive scaffolding) impact learning. This study examined 79 higher education students' multimodal a…

Surgeons Awareness, Expectations, and Involvement with Artificial Intelligence: a Survey Pre and Post the GPT Era
Lorenzo Arboit, Dennis N. Schneider, Toby Collins, Daniel A. Hashimoto, Silvana Perretta, Bernard Dallemagne, Jacques Marescaux, EAES Working Group, Nicolas Padoy, Pietro Mascagni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08258

Surgeons Awareness, Expectations, and Involvement with Artificial Intelligence: a Survey Pre and Post the GPT Era
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming medicine, with generative AI models like ChatGPT reshaping perceptions of its potential. This study examines surgeons' awareness, expectations, and involvement with AI in surgery through comparative surveys conducted in 2021 and 2024. Two cross-sectional surveys were distributed globally in 2021 and 2024, the first before an IRCAD webinar and the second during the annual EAES meeting. The surveys assessed demographics, AI awareness, expectations, inv…

There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, but education is [yet another part of our society that is] completely unprepared to deal with generative AI.
Teachers Are Not OK
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

'...a student might hear "don't use generative AI" from a prof but then log on to the university's Microsoft suite, which then suggests using Copilot to sum up readings or help draft writing'
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/…

Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

> “Instead of articulating our own thoughts, we articulate whatever AI helps us to articulate…we become more persuaded.” Without these signals, Naaman warns, we’ll only trust face-to-face communication — not even video calls.
Now I expect generative AI be used to justify return to office policies 🤢
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You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Gaps: The Impact of GenAI and Search Technologies on Retention
Mahir Akgun, Sacip Toker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07357 https:…

Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Gaps: The Impact of GenAI and Search Technologies on Retention
The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, has transformed how students access and engage with information, raising questions about their impact on learning outcomes and retention. This study investigates how GenAI (ChatGPT), search engines (Google), and e-textbooks influence student performance across tasks of varying cognitive complexity, based on Bloom's Taxonomy. Using a sample of 123 students, we examined performance in three tasks: [1] knowing and understanding, [2] applyin…

Where's the Line? A Classroom Activity on Ethical and Constructive Use of Generative AI in Physics
Zosia Krusberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00229 http…

Where's the Line? A Classroom Activity on Ethical and Constructive Use of Generative AI in Physics
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are rapidly reshaping how students and instructors engage with course material-and how they think about academic integrity. This paper presents a classroom activity designed to help physics students critically examine the ethical and educational implications of using AI in coursework. Through a structured sequence of case analysis, discussion, and optional policy drafting, students develop the metacognitive, ethical, and collaborative skills needed to navigate e…

Encouraging Students' Responsible Use of GenAI in Software Engineering Education: A Causal Model and Two Institutional Applications
Vahid Garousi, Zafar Jafarov, Aytan Movsumova, Atif Namazov, Huseyn Mirzayev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00682

Encouraging Students' Responsible Use of GenAI in Software Engineering Education: A Causal Model and Two Institutional Applications
Context: As generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot become pervasive in education, concerns are rising about students using them to complete rather than learn from coursework-risking overreliance, reduced critical thinking, and long-term skill deficits. Objective: This paper proposes and empirically applies a causal model to help educators scaffold responsible GenAI use in Software Engineering (SE) education. The model identifies how professor actions, student factors, …

Adapting University Policies for Generative AI: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Solutions in Higher Education
Russell Beale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22231

Adapting University Policies for Generative AI: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Solutions in Higher Education
The rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools - especially large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT - has ushered in a transformative era in higher education. Universities in developed regions are increasingly integrating these technologies into research, teaching, and assessment. On one hand, LLMs can enhance productivity by streamlining literature reviews, facilitating idea generation, assisting with coding and data analysis, and even supporting grant proposal d…

Understanding the Challenges and Promises of Developing Generative AI Apps: An Empirical Study
Buthayna AlMulla, Maram Assi, Safwat Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16453

Understanding the Challenges and Promises of Developing Generative AI Apps: An Empirical Study
The release of ChatGPT in 2022 triggered a rapid surge in generative artificial intelligence mobile apps (i.e., Gen-AI apps). Despite widespread adoption, little is known about how end users perceive and evaluate these Gen-AI functionalities in practice. In this work, we conduct a user-centered analysis of 676,066 reviews from 173 Gen-AI apps on the Google Play Store. We introduce a four-phase methodology, SARA (Selection, Acquisition, Refinement, and Analysis), that enables the systematic extr…

The more time goes on, the more conflicted I get about #AI. (or, more specifically, generative AI. I like causal AI a fair bit)
On one hand, I hate so much about it:
the needless environmental and electronic parts waste, the impact on labor, the monopolistic nature of main organizations driving it, the endless conversations about AGI and other absurdly utopian (or dystopian) futures, the widespread theft of IP and human work, the devaluation of labor and craft… so much of it is not okay at all.
On the other hand, I kinda get it?
I like to test software for myself, so I've been dipping my toes into some popular AI tools over the past couple of years. I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT (which I don’t feel great about, I know), and I have found genuine utility in it.
More so, I feel so conflicted when I talk to people I respect and who I think are very smart and creative and they tell me how in love they are with all of these AI tools, about the complex workflows they build, about their experiments with agentic AI and integrations... These people seem so excited, so alive, so joyous about the things that this technology allows them to do. They often wouldn't have had the skills / knowledge / financial capital to do some of those things with human efforts alone. And now I see them coding their own tools, doing complex data analysis, trying creative experiments with graphics / text / video...
And I feel like a total jerk going "BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS UNETHICAL AND INEFFICIENT AND YOU SHOULD STOP IT BECAUSE AI SUCKS".
The technology behind all these gen AI models does have real utility, and it has kicked off a lot of creativity from people who wouldn't have dabbled in those kinds of projects otherwise.
So I don't know how to feel. Because I can't let go of the guilt and the real problems and the awareness of how much empty hype there is.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI #ChatGPT

Computer Science Education in the Age of Generative AI
Russell Beale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02183 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.0218…

Computer Science Education in the Age of Generative AI
Generative AI tools - most notably large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Codex - are rapidly revolutionizing computer science education. These tools can generate, debug, and explain code, thereby transforming the landscape of programming instruction. This paper examines the profound opportunities that AI offers for enhancing computer science education in general, from coding assistance to fostering innovative pedagogical practices and streamlining assessments. At the same time, it highl…

I'm reading The Lost Princess by #GeorgeMacDonald and in one paragraph he starts off by saying that there is a fire made of fir-wood and by the end of the paragraph refers to it as a peat fire.
#ChatGPT informs me that fir-wood is fast burning and was often used in #Scotland to get a fire started while peat was long-burning and thus would be added to the fire thereafter.
It seems logical, but ChatGPT has also struggled to provide me with clear references to this information.
Curious if anyone is familiar with whether this was/is so? I'd like something to depend upon beyond the words of generative AI. 😂
#question

# Is ChatGPT Making Us Stupid?
In boardrooms and classrooms, coffee shops and cubicles, the same question keeps coming up: Is #ChatGPT making us smarter, or is it making us intellectually lazy—maybe even stupid?
#ai #ia

Is ChatGPT Making Us Stupid?
Just-released research studies are helping us understand what’s going on when we allow ChatGPT to think for us. Without guardrails, generative AI could in fact dull our thinking.

Integrating Universal Generative AI Platforms in Educational Labs to Foster Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy
Vasiliy Znamenskiy, Rafael Niyazov, Joel Hernandez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00007

Integrating Universal Generative AI Platforms in Educational Labs to Foster Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy
This paper presents a new educational framework for integrating generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini into laboratory activities aimed at developing critical thinking and digital literacy among undergraduate students. Recognizing the limitations and risks of uncritical reliance on large language models (LLMs), the proposed pedagogical model reframes GenAI as a research subject and cognitive tool. Students formulate discipline-specific prompts a…

Quantifying Student Success with Generative AI: A Monte Carlo Simulation Informed by Systematic Review
Seyma Yaman Kayadibi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01062

Quantifying Student Success with Generative AI: A Monte Carlo Simulation Informed by Systematic Review
The exponential development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies like ChatGPT has raised increasing curiosity about their use in higher education, specifically with respect to how students view them, make use of them, and the implications for learning outcomes. This paper employs a hybrid methodological approach involving a systematic literature review and simulation-based modeling to explore student perceptions of GenAI use in the context of higher education. A total of n…

Programming Geotechnical Reliability Algorithms using Generative AI
Atma Sharma, Jie Zhang, Meng Lu, Shuangyi Wu, Baoxiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19536

Programming Geotechnical Reliability Algorithms using Generative AI
Programming reliability algorithms is crucial for risk assessment in geotechnical engineering. This study explores the possibility of automating and accelerating this task using Generative AI based on Large Language Models (LLMs). Specifically, the most popular LLM, i.e., ChatGPT, is used to test the ability to generate MATLAB codes for four classical reliability algorithms. The four specific examples considered in this study are: (1) First Order Reliability Method (FORM); (2) Subset simulation…

Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Qin Xie, Ming Li, Fei Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14377

Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Despite the rapid proliferation of generative AI in higher education, students in China face significant barriers in accessing global tools like ChatGPT due to regulations and constraints. Grounded in the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) model, this study employs qualitative interviews to investigate how Chinese university students interact with both global and domestic generative AIs in the learning process. Findings reveal that engagement is shaped by accessibilit…

The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
Barbara Oakley, Michael Johnston, Ken-Zen Chen, Eulho Jung, Terrence J. Sejnowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11015

The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
In the age of generative AI and ubiquitous digital tools, human cognition faces a structural paradox: as external aids become more capable, internal memory systems risk atrophy. Drawing on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this paper examines how heavy reliance on AI systems and discovery-based pedagogies may impair the consolidation of declarative and procedural memory -- systems essential for expertise, critical thinking, and long-term retention. We review how tools like ChatGPT and calc…