alt Hacker NewsReading books does not have the psychological effects of passing cognition to an LLM.
EDIT: A "luddite" is opposed to new technology. I'm a coder and technical educator. I teach people to use LLMs.
Responsible use of a new technology is not being a luddite. And there are equivalent concerns of the effects of social media on children as well.
literacy causes profound brain structure changes and psychological effects, and mass literacy results in profound social transformation. which is why people have be trying to prevent the spread of literacy for thousands of years, to this very day.
an LLM is a next token prediction function. of course it matters how you use it, and if you want to use it for an educational purpose, that has to be intentional, so i agree with you on that.
chatgpt and all the other ai powered scams and attention monetization apps are horrible, because they are just using improved technology to accelerate the exploitation of consumers (both adults and children) of media and app platforms.
the solution here is not to say the technology is bad but to use it to create competitive products that are actually beneficial.