{"id":148450,"date":"2025-09-19T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=148450"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:59:24","slug":"how-chatgpt-slowly-destroys-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=148450","title":{"rendered":"How ChatGPT Slowly Destroys Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6sJ50Ybp44I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you know! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Justin Sung is a world-renowned expert in self-regulated learning, certified teacher, research author, and former medical doctor. He has guest lectured on learning skills at Monash University for Master\u2019s and PhD students in Education and Medicine. Over the past decade, he has empowered tens of thousands of learners worldwide to dramatically improve their academic performance, learning efficiency, and motivation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you know! Dr. Justin Sung is a world-renowned expert in self-regulated learning, certified teacher, research author, and former medical doctor. He has guest lectured on learning skills at Monash University for Master\u2019s and PhD students in Education and Medicine. Over the past decade, he has empowered tens of thousands of learners worldwide to dramatically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193],"tags":[3544,4265,4221,4014],"class_list":["post-148450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-ai","tag-brain-damage","tag-chatbots","tag-chatgpt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-chatgpt-slowly-destroys-your.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":149178,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=149178","url_meta":{"origin":148450,"position":0},"title":"ChatGPT Atlas: The Browser That Watched Me Watch Ads\u201d","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"22\/10\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The year is 2025.AI can write symphonies, flirt better than poets, and generate fake people with better skin than me.And yet\u2026 my \u201cAI-powered browser\u201d can\u2019t block an ad for toenail fungus cream. 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