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Cognitive surrender and over reliance on ChatGPT as authority

April 4, 2026r/artificial, r/ArtificialInteligence

In r/artificial and r/ArtificialInteligence, people worry that users defer to ChatGPT even when primary instructions contradict it, describing a habit forming loss of independent judgment.

People anxious about deviating from what AI tells them to do?
it’s so much easier to get the coding part done now, and people are rediscovering how important testing is.
once someone defers to ai a few times successfully, it becomes uncomfortable to override it even when better info is right in front of them.
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