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Makes sense to me. It's the old the work you put in determines what satisfaction you get out of it. If everything is done for you, then what satisfaction is there?

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The paper does seem to include a section where they check what the AI is used for and in work contexts, there was no correlation between depression and AI usage. Only in personal contexts.

I guess it might depend if you get satisfaction out of your job. Many do not even without AI

> It's the old the work you put in determines what satisfaction you get out of it.

I guess that explains why people who dig ditches for a living are so satisfied.

I'm sure somewhere there is a minority of people who actually like ditch digging and are satisfied.

It just happens that for technical stuff the minority that likes what they do is larger and thus actually noticeable.

Gardeners seem like pretty happy people to me.

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