Using ChatGPT to write essays reduces users’ brain activity and connectivity linked to creativity and memory.
AI-generated texts converge on similar words and ideas, limiting divergent opinions.
Large language models produce average, cliché-filled outputs that reinforce cultural hegemony.
ChatGPT suggestions override writers’ voices, causing loss of authenticity and identity.
AI tools homogenize writing across different cultures, shifting norms toward Western conventions.
In creative tasks, AI assistance yields more semantically similar, less original ideas.
AI pulls users toward a consensus “center,” diminishing individual influence on output.
Existing experiments are small-scale, and long-term consequences of mass AI adoption remain uncertain.
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