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A brief altercation recorded during a Chicago-area high school’s Feb. 12 walkout protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gone viral online, reflecting the anger over ICE operations that have prompted school walkouts across Lake County and around the country. [...] According to the letter, about 100 students participated, and the protest has garnered attention from “some with no apparent affiliation to the district.” The letter said unauthorized use of recording devices, physical altercations, bullying and harassment are outlined in board policies, as well as disciplinary measures. The video of the incident went viral online, popping up across different platforms and drawing varying reactions from different political spheres, garnering praise and criticism alike. The video was also highlighted by various right-wing organizations, including the local branch of Moms for Liberty, which had made other posts critical of the planned walkout, calling it a “student-organized disruption.” Lake County has seen numerous walkouts in the last month, organized by students, in protest of federal immigration enforcement efforts that have rattled many in the region. For example, in Waukegan, which has a significant Hispanic population, about 500 students from Waukegan High participated in a walkout. According to the Lake and McHenry County Scanner, the student who threw the punch was suspended for two days.

It isn't always wrong. It's often correct enough for the average person's day to day usage. If you say, "it always gives misinformation", they're going to ignore you because just that morning it gave a perfectly functional summary of their meeting's notes. It correctly identified some vegan restaurants in their area. It accurately calculated some math for them.

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How AI is rewiring the human brain: the generational transformation of cognition and knowing

AI-overdependence and human cognitive decline: Hazards, evidence, and mitigation strategies

Is AI dulling our minds? — Harvard Gazette

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I think this is an easier argument to make with the people in your life who use AI. "It's wrong enough of the time that you shouldn't trust it" is easy to refute with "but it's right just enough of the time to be worth it". Add to that the good old Dunning-Kruger effect, and it's easy to give AI way too much credit. And way too much power.

Instead of asking them to vet AI's accuracy (especially about things they don't understand themselves), ask them about what effect AI has had on their own brain. Have they noticed changes in their memory, their attention span, their ability to focus?

Ask them what they use AI for. Ask them how they did those things before they had AI - and now ask them if they could do that now.

Ask them to consider what it would be like if they didn't use AI for a month, or a week, or even a day.

If the thought makes them uncomfortable, beg them to consider why.

I work in memory care, so believe me, I know what the process of dementia often looks like, and I'm seeing the telltale signs in more and more people who are younger and younger than ever. The scariest part is that the average diagnosis usually comes several years after the first symptoms present. It worries me.

And, as others in this thread have mentioned, there are even signs of cognitive decline in the AI itself as llm models inevitably begin to eat their own tails:

Almost all leading AI chatbots show signs of cognitive decline

Older AI models show signs of cognitive decline, study shows

Digital Dementia? AI Shows Surprising Signs of Cognitive Decline

JASONNNN RAHHHH

I've had fibromyalgia since I was a teenager, and I've suspected mild ME for almost as long because of the way it first presented. The POTS is new since 2020 and probably caused up by an asymptomatic Covid infection I picked up from the ER around that time.

Of course, I made the mistake of asking why everyone calls this one guy Brickaday and it turns out that he worked at a brickyard for 40 years, stealing exactly one brick every day and making no particular efforts to conceal the theft. Nobody thought anything of it until years later he was discovered to have built three houses.

His boss is said to have shrugged and made some remarks about the importance of coming up with a plan and sticking to it.