Full paper: LLM users increasingly ask models to think for them, often unaware
ValerioCapraro · x · 2026-09-17
Full paper link for the thread on LLM oracle use: based on 68,000 public prompts and 140,000 messages, users increasingly ask LLMs to tell them what to think or do rather than help them think; only 20% correctly identified their dominant usage, and people prefer oracular answers despite acknowledging they hinder independent interpretation.
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