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“Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task”, research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ON THE RISE
An old saying goes, “there are no atheists in foxholes”. When facing the gravest danger and the deepest desperation, humans generally lose their rationality and cling to anything that may give them hope. During war, people who never believed in any god can fervently pray. During a serious illness, perfectly normal people who usually laugh at conspiracy theories can easily fall down a rabbit hole of miraculous cures and alternative treatments. Such beliefs have always existed, but now, with social media becoming the source of information for a growing number of people while generally failing to counter the viral circulation of disinformation, the situation looks worse than before.
According to EDMO’s monitoring, health-related disinformation accounted for 7% of total detected disinformation in the EU in August, and the same share was...
No vote fraud is happening in Sweden, contrary to viral claims ++ Once friends, now “traitors”: How Latvia’s parties are fighting for the Russian-speaking vote ++ More claims of election fraud in ...