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Study maps how people treat LLMs as authorities on personal dilemmas
A new arXiv paper examines the trend of users consulting large language models as all-knowing authorities on subjective personal questions. The authors propose a typology of this behavior and LLM-based measurement methods, citing concerns about user autonomy and well-being. The work is categorized as a cross-listing on arXiv cs.AI.