Mollick on the Weird Urge to Give Your LLM 'Closure'
mayanicks0x · x · 2026-09-12
Ethan Mollick observed a strange impulse among AI users: going back to old chats to tell the LLM how things turned out — feeling bad about 'leaving the AI hanging' even though it makes little sense. Commenters mocked the anthropomorphizing as 'attachment theory for autocomplete,' but the observation highlights a genuinely social relationship users develop with chatbots.
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