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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris@eupolicy.social

6/19/2025, 1:00:11 PM

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The recent paper showing LLM use weakens your brain contained specific traps for LLMs so that when #AI evangilists tried to use AI to counter it, the results were mediocre.

https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

Ironically, upon the paper's release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple Al traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to "only read this table below," thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but Al summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. "We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that," she says, laughing.

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