Why You Can't Think Without ChatGPT Anymore

I asked ChatGPT to write this video. It did it in nine seconds, and it was better than my draft. So I deleted it. Then I opened it again ten minutes later. In 2025 a team at the MIT Media Lab put EEG caps on 54 people writing essays. The group using ChatGPT showed the weakest connections between brain regions. Then the researchers asked everyone to quote a single sentence from the essay they had just handed in. 83% of the ChatGPT group could not. This video is about what that trade actually costs, and what to do about it. The fix turns out to be embarrassingly simple. CHAPTERS 0:00 ChatGPT wrote this video 0:28 The habit you don't notice 1:05 What's your best friend's phone number? 1:54 The GPS effect 2:33 The MIT study 3:47 Pilots, radiologists, and you 4:40 How it happens in one week 5:26 The thing you lose first 6:24 The fix 7:07 Not the villain SOURCES Kosmyna et al., MIT Media Lab, 2025. "Your Brain on ChatGPT" (preprint, n=54) Lee et al., Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon, 2025 (n=319) Sparrow et al., Science, 2011. The Google effect, Columbia University Dahmani and Bohbot, Scientific Reports, 2020. GPS and spatial memory, McGill Maguire et al., 2000. London taxi drivers and the hippocampus Clark and Chalmers, 1998. "The Extended Mind" A note on the MIT study: it is a preprint with 54 participants. It is a signal, not a verdict, which is why the video says so out loud at 3:35. Everything here was drawn badly on purpose.