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  • paka@mastodon.scotP This user is from outside of this forum
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    #1

    Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

    Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

    - Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
    - With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

    Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

    AI advice made people #confident there're correct

    - Baseline: 30%
    - With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

    People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

    https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

    #digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

    runrichrun@mastodon.socialR eribosot@mastodon.socialE moranaga@literatur.socialM webology@mastodon.socialW bleepbloop@ravenation.clubB 10 Replies Last reply
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    • paka@mastodon.scotP paka@mastodon.scot

      Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

      Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

      - Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
      - With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

      Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

      AI advice made people #confident there're correct

      - Baseline: 30%
      - With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

      People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

      https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

      #digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

      runrichrun@mastodon.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
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      #2

      @paka
      TLDNR: "The title of their paper reveals their findings: 'AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say "I don’t know", even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized.'"
      #AI

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      • paka@mastodon.scotP paka@mastodon.scot

        Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

        Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

        - Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
        - With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

        Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

        AI advice made people #confident there're correct

        - Baseline: 30%
        - With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

        People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

        https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

        #digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

        eribosot@mastodon.socialE This user is from outside of this forum
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        #3

        @paka

        Is it surprising that the AI that people use is mostly developed in the United States, whose schoolkids consistently score low on basic skills like math and reading, but high on self-confidence?

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        • paka@mastodon.scotP paka@mastodon.scot

          Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

          Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

          - Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
          - With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

          Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

          AI advice made people #confident there're correct

          - Baseline: 30%
          - With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

          People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

          https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

          #digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

          moranaga@literatur.socialM This user is from outside of this forum
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          #4

          @paka

          My interpretation: The belief in the accuracy of AI is so strong that independent research is deemed unnecessary, and any emerging doubts about the correctness of an AI’s response are ignored or suppressed. At the same time, the AI’s responses – which are always phrased in an affirmative manner – dispel personal uncertainties and thus reinforce the impression of possessing truth and knowledge – and therefore of being in the right.

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          • moranaga@literatur.socialM moranaga@literatur.social

            @paka

            My interpretation: The belief in the accuracy of AI is so strong that independent research is deemed unnecessary, and any emerging doubts about the correctness of an AI’s response are ignored or suppressed. At the same time, the AI’s responses – which are always phrased in an affirmative manner – dispel personal uncertainties and thus reinforce the impression of possessing truth and knowledge – and therefore of being in the right.

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            #5

            @paka

            AI thus serves as a pseudo-religious higher authority, replacing one’s own expertise and knowledge with a belief in an omniscient power.

            A modern god is born, so to speak.

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            • paka@mastodon.scotP paka@mastodon.scot

              Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

              Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

              - Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
              - With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

              Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

              AI advice made people #confident there're correct

              - Baseline: 30%
              - With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

              People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

              https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

              #digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

              webology@mastodon.socialW This user is from outside of this forum
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              #6

              @paka @fallenhitokiri Seems like a bad study if only 44% can get it correct with or without LLMs. Especially if you tell them to use a bad model you know will fail on subjects they know nothing about. Paying them incentivized them to care slightly more but clearly not enough to abandon the tool you asked them to use. 😬

              fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.comF saladshootrdlux@mastodon.socialS 2 Replies Last reply
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              • paka@mastodon.scotP paka@mastodon.scot

                Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

                Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

                - Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
                - With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

                Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

                AI advice made people #confident there're correct

                - Baseline: 30%
                - With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

                People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

                https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

                #digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

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                #7

                @paka AI doesn't allow you any time to chew on the information you get from it, because it is always ready to go with more information for you. There should be time delayed version of it, so that you can sit with the stuff it just said before asking for some more.

                When two humans discuss something there is thinking time, moments when neither says anything. AI just keeps offering to take you further into what may or may not be facts. None of it stays permanently in your head.

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                • webology@mastodon.socialW webology@mastodon.social

                  @paka @fallenhitokiri Seems like a bad study if only 44% can get it correct with or without LLMs. Especially if you tell them to use a bad model you know will fail on subjects they know nothing about. Paying them incentivized them to care slightly more but clearly not enough to abandon the tool you asked them to use. 😬

                  fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.comF This user is from outside of this forum
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                  fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com
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                  #8

                  @webology @paka the study IMHO highlights how much narrative vs actual research happens on both sides.

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                  • fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.comF fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com

                    @webology @paka the study IMHO highlights how much narrative vs actual research happens on both sides.

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                    #9

                    @fallenhitokiri I'm all for a good study, but it reads like taking @treyhunner's https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ app, adding an AI mode where you ask people to use the tool, but you give them wrong answers on purpose for your study when you know the tool will mostly give the wrong answer.

                    I agree on narrative, but I fail to see "research" 😬

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                    • paka@mastodon.scotP paka@mastodon.scot

                      Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

                      Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

                      - Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
                      - With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

                      Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

                      AI advice made people #confident there're correct

                      - Baseline: 30%
                      - With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

                      People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

                      https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

                      #digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

                      gary_alderson@infosec.exchangeG This user is from outside of this forum
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                      #10

                      @paka ai is a miracle any way you slice it

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                      • paka@mastodon.scotP paka@mastodon.scot

                        Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

                        Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

                        - Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
                        - With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

                        Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

                        AI advice made people #confident there're correct

                        - Baseline: 30%
                        - With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

                        People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

                        https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

                        #digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

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                        #11

                        @paka Dunning-Kruegerizers, automated and deployed to scale.

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                        • webology@mastodon.socialW webology@mastodon.social

                          @fallenhitokiri I'm all for a good study, but it reads like taking @treyhunner's https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ app, adding an AI mode where you ask people to use the tool, but you give them wrong answers on purpose for your study when you know the tool will mostly give the wrong answer.

                          I agree on narrative, but I fail to see "research" 😬

                          fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.comF This user is from outside of this forum
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                          fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com
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                          #12

                          @webology @treyhunner an AI mode with provided wrong answers would potentially be better at whereabouts.earth than I am 😄

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                          • fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.comF fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com

                            @webology @treyhunner an AI mode with provided wrong answers would potentially be better at whereabouts.earth than I am 😄

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                            #13

                            @fallenhitokiri @treyhunner My Claude was about 5 for every 6 or 7, mostly because of small boundary lines. I'm terrible at it.

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                            • paka@mastodon.scotP paka@mastodon.scot

                              Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

                              Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

                              - Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
                              - With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

                              Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

                              AI advice made people #confident there're correct

                              - Baseline: 30%
                              - With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

                              People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

                              https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

                              #digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

                              bytebro@mastodonapp.ukB This user is from outside of this forum
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                              #14

                              @paka

                              I like this. One could argue that AI is a Dunning-Kruger Club enabler. And as others have pointed out, 'the first rule of Dunning-Kruger Club is that you don't know you are in Dunning-Kruger Club'.

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                              • paka@mastodon.scotP paka@mastodon.scot

                                Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

                                Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

                                - Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
                                - With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

                                Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

                                AI advice made people #confident there're correct

                                - Baseline: 30%
                                - With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

                                People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

                                https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

                                #digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

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                                #15

                                @paka https://mastodon.online/@apm77/116957442610896395

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                                • webology@mastodon.socialW webology@mastodon.social

                                  @paka @fallenhitokiri Seems like a bad study if only 44% can get it correct with or without LLMs. Especially if you tell them to use a bad model you know will fail on subjects they know nothing about. Paying them incentivized them to care slightly more but clearly not enough to abandon the tool you asked them to use. 😬

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                                  #16

                                  @webology @paka @fallenhitokiri

                                  this was my thought as well, seems like the study set subjects up to fail if they used AI. confidence in AI is interesting, but so is confidence in the study. maybe it says more about a subject’s ability to discern AI models than anything else.

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                                  • paka@mastodon.scotP paka@mastodon.scot

                                    Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

                                    Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

                                    - Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
                                    - With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

                                    Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

                                    AI advice made people #confident there're correct

                                    - Baseline: 30%
                                    - With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

                                    People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

                                    https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

                                    #digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

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                                    #17

                                    @paka "They used Step 3.5 Flash because it was usually wrong..."

                                    Ofc you pick the AI answer when you don't know the answer yourself, when given this option.Why not try this suggestion, guessing.

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