New arXiv Paper Frames LLMs as a 'Cognitive Virus' Spreading Through Human Minds
canjobear · hn · 2026-09-06
An arXiv paper titled LLMs as a Cognitive Virus is making the rounds on Hacker News, proposing an analogy of large language models as cognitive viruses to analyze how they spread and shape human information ecosystems. Only the link is shared so far; discussion is still developing.
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