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MIT study: AI boosts fake news detection but weakens users' own skills

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AI assistance improved misinformation detection accuracy by 21%, but later unassisted performance dropped by 15.3 percentage points. The four-week study with 67 participants tracked 7,203 AI conversations and 4,536 judgments.

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Jun 10, 6:40 PM
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