Even setting aside the very real possibility that AI is just going to hand you a series of hallucinations, if you’re not willing to immerse yourself in the era by reading primary sources and expanding your knowledge past what you think to ask an LLM, it’s going to be an incredibly shallow piece of work.
What the research is showing is that people who use LLMs become increasingly less willing and able to do their own thinking. Soon the idea of sitting down with the weekend reading a book is a nightmare compared to having an LLM spoonfeed you answers while it sucks your cock about all your insightful questions.
Even setting aside the very real possibility that AI is just going to hand you a series of hallucinations, if you’re not willing to immerse yourself in the era by reading primary sources and expanding your knowledge past what you think to ask an LLM, it’s going to be an incredibly shallow piece of work.
What the research is showing is that people who use LLMs become increasingly less willing and able to do their own thinking. Soon the idea of sitting down with the weekend reading a book is a nightmare compared to having an LLM spoonfeed you answers while it sucks your cock about all your insightful questions.
Brain rot is real.