This feels a bit like two completely different posts stitched together: one about how LLMs can trigger or exacerbate certain types of mental illness and another about why you shouldn’t use LLMs for editing, or maybe should only use them sparingly. The primary sources about LLM related mental illness are interesting, but I don’t think they provide much support at all for the second claim.
I think this is less “two completely different posts stitched together” and more “Here is a prescriptive rule (don’t use LLM to help your writing), with a descriptive preface (because they can also drive you insane)”.
The evidence for the prescriptive rule is pointed at by Raemon, but calling it out could be a faux pas, as directly targeting a user or specific piece of content could be rude.
Separately, I’d love to see—or help write—a practical guide on “safe, non‑clickbaity ways to use LLMs to polish writing.” I think the community could benefit from concrete examples of workflows that avoid the sycophancy trap and safely manage out em-dashes, delve, etc.
This feels a bit like two completely different posts stitched together: one about how LLMs can trigger or exacerbate certain types of mental illness and another about why you shouldn’t use LLMs for editing, or maybe should only use them sparingly. The primary sources about LLM related mental illness are interesting, but I don’t think they provide much support at all for the second claim.
I think this is less “two completely different posts stitched together” and more “Here is a prescriptive rule (don’t use LLM to help your writing), with a descriptive preface (because they can also drive you insane)”.
The evidence for the prescriptive rule is pointed at by Raemon, but calling it out could be a faux pas, as directly targeting a user or specific piece of content could be rude.
Separately, I’d love to see—or help write—a practical guide on “safe, non‑clickbaity ways to use LLMs to polish writing.” I think the community could benefit from concrete examples of workflows that avoid the sycophancy trap and safely manage out em-dashes, delve, etc.