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Ethan Mollick Says Reduced Thinking Detail in Claude and ChatGPT Makes Human Oversight Harder

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Ethan Mollick said Claude and ChatGPT have stopped providing detailed summaries of their thinking, making it harder for people to assess and intervene in AI work while it is underway. He argued that this change pushes users toward automation rather than AI-assisted work with a human involved. Mollick suggested that preventing distillation and improving the user experience were likely reasons for the change.

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    Ethan Mollick Says Less Detailed Thinking Traces Make Human Input Harder

    The end of detailed summarized thinking traces for Claude and ChatGPT (likely both anti-distillation & for UX) has made being a human in the loop challenging. It pushes us towards automation, rather than augmentation, as it has become much harder to weigh in on in-process AI work

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