GoKawiilMIT study finds AI fact-checking tools erode users' own skill at spotting fake news
MIT Media Lab researchers Pattie Maes, Anku Rani and Valdemar Danry ran a four-week study where participants used a chatbot to judge whether headline-image pairs were real or fake news. Accuracy jumped 21% initially with AI help, but by the study's end, unaided performance had dropped 15% below baseline, even though many participants believed they'd improved.