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A new study looks at the skills journalists are losing (and gaining) because of AI tools

Nieman Lab 08 July 2026 1h ago
A new study looks at the skills journalists are losing (and gaining) because of AI tools
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Last year, MIT’s Media Lab came out with a buzzy study on a phenomenon that’s been coined “cognitive debt.” In short, the researchers found that when ChatGPT users offloaded essay writing tasks to their AI assistants, their own writing abilities declined. ChatGPT users consistently had the lowest “brain engagement” and task performance scores across the...
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