JAMA Network Open

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1. Oct 21
   Essay warns AI overuse quietly erodes deep thinking and independent judgment

   An opinion essay republished by Huxiu AI and originally published by the WeChat account 极智GeeTech argues that the real risk of the AI era is not replacement by machines but users voluntarily handing over the reins of thought. It describes a habitual loop of asking, waiting and copying answers, and says heavy reliance differs from gaming or short-video addiction because it wears away deep thinking, critical judgment and independent reasoning. The author notes that medicine does not yet classify "AI addiction" as a formal diagnosis, with academics preferring terms such as problematic AI use or AI over-dependence, and cites studies including an estimated 5–10% prevalence of problematic generative AI use, a JAMA Network Open survey of more than 20,000 U.S. adults, and Chinese surveys on students and workers.

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2. Oct 20
   AI scan of 150,000 Reddit posts finds appetite-increase reports for unapproved diet drug

   A University of Pennsylvania research team used AI to analyze nearly 150,000 Reddit posts and comments from about 40,000 users, cataloguing symptoms and side effects reported for Retatrutide, a weight-loss drug that has not been approved. Among comments with identifiable symptoms, increased appetite was the most commonly reported reaction — a distribution that differs sharply from the drug's phase 2 trial side effects, which were mainly gastrointestinal. The study was published in JAMA Network Open; co-author Neil Sehgal called it a first glimpse of real-world experience with a drug that has not completed clinical trials, while the team cautioned that community reports cannot prove causation or substitute for trial evidence, and that Reddit's sample has limitations.

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