The DARK Side of ChatGPT

Hello, friends!

AI is slowly hollowing out your mind. The more you use chat GPT, the more you use artificial intelligence, the less your own intelligence is being lost. We all thought that by using AI we will become smarter. But the opposite is happening here. People are becoming more stupid.

About 10 years ago, try to remember how many phone numbers you remember. 7-8 phone numbers, 4-5 phone numbers, or at least 2-3 phone numbers, you'll remember. But today, in 2025, think about how many phone numbers you remember. It's difficult to remember 1-2 phone numbers. This is because all the numbers are saved in the phone now. And they don't need to be remembered. Similarly, about 10 years ago, when you used to go somewhere, you remembered the roads. You remember different landmarks in your city.

But today, you just open Google Maps and follow the path from there. These are two very small examples, friends. But only from these, you should know the seriousness of this problem. I will show you the scientific studies that show that people who use Google Maps less or don't use it at all, for example, taxi drivers, a whole part of their brain, is bigger than the average person. Just imagine. And in Google Maps, the whole point is to remember the roads. AI chatbots can write entire essays for you.

They can code for you. They can generate investments and ideas from business decisions. Here, a very inconvenient question arises, friends. Is using AI making people more stupid? In the last few months, new scientific studies have been published on this question. And their results are very shocking. Many of you might be wondering, what kind of hypocrisy is this? I mean, I have my own AI platform, AI Fiesta, where I offer different AI chatbots to you.

were divided into three groups. The first group was allowed to use ChatGPT. The second group was only allowed to search on Google. And the third group was asked to write the essay by themselves. During the writing of the essay, an EEG machine was used to record their brain activity.

And here, something very shocking happened. In the ChatGPT users' group, the least amount of brain engagement was seen. That is, while writing the essay, their brain activity was significantly less. Literally, their brain was switched off. The most shocking thing was that this study went on for several months and after a few months... that the chat GPT users became more lazy. And at the end of the study, they were just copying and pasting the essays from the chat GPT. When the people of this group were asked what they had written,

they were unable to quote what they had written. Whereas the people who wrote without using any tool, they knew everything. The group that used Google search, was somewhere in between them. Active brain function was seen in them. Similarly, in 2025, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University conducted a study on 319 knowledge workers. In this study, it was found that people who have more faith in AI do less critical thinking. When people rely more on AI, their independent problem-solving skills can weaken.

In addition to this, in the study, it was found that people's focus on problem-solving shifted to how to use AI in existing systems. Frequent AI use and critical thinking scores have a significant negative correlation It is clear from these three studies that AI is having a huge impact on our brain's thinking capabilities. But apart from this, there is a counterpoint here that many people raise. That whenever a new technology comes, the fear about it is that with this technology, some people might become more dumb.

Some people might become more stupid. This fear has always been there. This is actually true, friends. Thousands of years ago, when the invention of books took place, even then, by calling it a threatening technology, who's local. For example, Greek philosopher Socrates also opposed the writing of books. He said that if people learn to write, they will lose their memory. They won't remember things, they will just write them down. He also said that people will get the illusion of wisdom from writing.

That is, people would think that they know a lot, but in reality, they know nothing. Although, today we know that this entire argument was wrong. Actually, by writing, you remember things better. Similarly, when calculators came in the 1970s, the educators said that children's ability to do math would end. And they wouldn't be able to learn a basic skill of life. Now, things started to get a bit controversial. When research was done on calculators, it was found that it is not that clear.

If it is used in a wrong way, if it is overused in small classes, then it can have a negative impact on children. But some studies have also shown that calculators are not having such a bad effect. The real problem actually starts after the arrival of Google. In 2011, Betsy Sparrow and her team did a research which became very famous. He found that when people know that some information is available somewhere, like on the internet, they try to remember it less. This was called Google effect or digital amnesia.

If our brain knows that something will be found when we search on Google, then our brain doesn't waste energy in storing it. For example, you see a new English word while reading a book. And then you go to Google to find out its meaning. At that time, you will surely find out the meaning of that word. But a few days later, if that word is shown to you again, then it is difficult for you to remember what it means. Because of this Google effect, not the information in the brain, but where that information will be found is stored.

Like, what is the name of those websites where you will get that information. Navigation, friends, is one of the most demanding tasks for our brain. For this, our brain uses the hippocampus, which lies exactly here in the brain. Anthropologists even believe that navigation is the reason for the need for memory. And maybe the evolution of humans was due to the need for navigation. Navigation skills have such a profound impact on our brain that it even changes the structure of the brain. In a study published in 2000,

the brain of taxi drivers in London was analyzed and compared to the brain of a normal person. At that time, navigation was not that good. So, taxi drivers in London had to remember 25,000 streets. And when their brain was analyzed, it was found that the hippocampus part in their brain It is much bigger than a normal human being. And today, people who rely on Google Maps and GPS a lot, are seen the other way around. Their navigation skills become weak. And later, they can't remember the way because their hippocampus The problem here is that

Hippocampus is not only necessary for navigation. It is also necessary to connect episodic memory, future imagination, and concepts. When you don't use your navigation skills, then all your other abilities also become weak. And now you can imagine, what a dangerous impact AI will have on people's minds. Because of AI, we are reducing our thinking. And it may take a few years to know which parts of the brain will be affected. Because it takes time to do research and many years to

find out the long-term impact. But with the information provided so far, you can guess in which direction things are going. A human brain is only 2% of the body. But it consumes 20% of energy. That's why evolution has made us cognitive misers. But the problem is that our brain needs friction to learn, to learn. If there is no challenge, it will not learn anything. And until you don't struggle with yourself, don't think with yourself, don't make mistakes with yourself, don't try again,

your brain's networks will not be strong. And on the other hand, evolution has prepared us to adopt every technology that makes our work easier. And this is where a paradox arises. We want to make our work easy, but we also want to prepare our brain to solve challenges and complex problems. Because of AI, the people who don't know how to do a task deeply are the most at risk. Because of AI, they won't be able to develop all the processes that come from the grunt work. Grunt work means repetitive,

boring and physically demanding tasks. For example, writing a long essay for students. It takes a lot of effort to do it yourself. Or for new employees, Summarizing documents, writing basic code, sending routine emails. These are very boring tasks that take a lot of time to do in the beginning. But later, as we do these tasks, we pick up speed. We start doing these tasks quickly and learn a lot of new things in this process. This is how knowledge and mental models are made which help us a lot in life.

But now, because of AI, this grunt work is being automated. Students and new employees are not getting their training ground because of this. The biggest problem is that if you don't know the fundamentals of a job very well, how will you verify it? you have done the task properly or not? Even if you get your work done by AI, you have to review the work of AI to find mistakes in it. But if you don't have the knowledge of the first principles of that task, you don't know the fundamentals of that task,

then you will never be able to review the work of AI. And you will never be able to catch any mistake of AI. First principles analysis, I think, is something that can be applied to Now the question is, how can we stop AI from doing this harm? The first solution is to boycott AI. Stop using AI. But in my opinion, this is not a realistic solution. Because doing this means ignoring the positive impact of AI. The work that 10 people needed to do, today only one person can do it. The productivity and efficiency of working with AI has increased so much that it has

become easier for small businesses to compete with big businesses. It has become easier for someone to learn something new and gain new knowledge because all the knowledge of the world is at your fingertips. In this case, boycotting AI will mean that you will lag far behind the rest of the world. It will be as if you are trying to find a new job today without learning a computer. So if this is not the solution, then what is the solution? I asked the same question to the AI Fiesta team. about a month and a half ago.

I directly told the team that we are an AI platform and what is the loss of AI is clearly visible in these research papers. So it is our responsibility towards people to take steps to counter the negative impact of this AI. Because I know that these big billion-dollar companies are not going to do anything. They are only concerned about their investors and their share price. They are not going to do anything. people to become addicts to their platform. And this will be the best case scenario for them.

If people are becoming more stupid by using AI chatbots, then this is a good thing. They will become more dependent on our chatbot. They will use it more. There will be more profit for us. But in AI Fiesta, friends, we don't have the pressure of any investor or stock market. So genuinely,

.You can climb escalators if you want to climb floors. There are lifts now. But our body works on the philosophy of use it or lose it. If we want to maintain good health, the body has to be trained. By playing sports, going to the gym, exercising regularly. And we realised, friends, that a big solution to counter this negative impact of AI would be brain training. We should train our brain in the same way, by giving challenges and difficulties,

I would like to say that whenever you use AI in your life, don't become completely dependent on it.