ChainCatcher message, research teams from MIT, Wellesley College, and the Massachusetts College of Art have recently discovered that long-term reliance on large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT may impair cognitive abilities. The study shows that participants who used AI for writing had only half the number of Alpha wave connections in their brains compared to independent thinkers (42 vs. 79), and 83.3% were unable to accurately cite the content of their own articles. Researchers refer to this phenomenon as cognitive debt—reducing the mental load in the short term but leading to a decline in critical thinking and creativity in the long term.