AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
18 points by dougb5
by adi_kurian
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"We recruited 354 US-based participants from the online research platform Prolific and paid them $2.60 for
participation (our study took approximately 13 minutes to complete)."
Nah I'm good on this one. Gotta go back to Claude to reduce my persistence.
by dougb5
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""Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely to give up. Notably, these effects emerge after only brief interactions with AI (approximately 10 minutes)."
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