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AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, researchers found (thenextweb.com)
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[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

The headline seems to not be correct. Based on the abstract:

We engineered the questions so that AI advice was wrong, separating AI use from its accuracy.

The research doesn't really seem to test if people using AI are more or less correct, only how it affects their judgement.