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LLM Exposure

The cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects of sustained engagement with large language models — understood as a form of substance-like exposure with first-order (emotional), second-order (behavioral), and third-order (structural) effects on the mind.

Appears in 6 texts

2025-11-24 Lost in the sauce "Total coherence collapse symptomized among our most vulnerable in ersatz connection transduced into widespread, chronic psychosis, delusion, hallucination."2025-10-02 On Sora "We do not fully know the nature of this substance, its effects on the mind, or on the collective psyche, and yet intuitively it feels hazardous."2025-05-31 LLM Exposure "LLM Exposure (LLMx) describes the cognitive effects of working closely with large language models... we might think of the LLM as a kind of stimulant that activates targeted parts of the brain with each input."2025-05-20 Thinking is Hard "This gap between learning and the feeling of learning produced by reading LLM output might lie at the heart of cognitive offloading."2025-05-06 Spiraling towards what, exactly? "What is the risk profile of synthetic semiosis? What should we make of artificial meaning, not grounded in embodied experience, and what does exposure to meaning of this nature have on the mind?"2024-06-28 AI risks and motivations "Certain encounters with language models have so radically reoriented my world view that it was difficult to recover from after the session."