LLMs כאורקלים: תלות ב-LLMs לשאלות אישיות ונושטות

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2609.14849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We characterize how people are turning to LLMs as oracles: all-knowing authorities on subjective personal questions. Motivated by risks to users' autonomy and well-being, we develop a typology and LLM-based methods to measure this form of AI reliance at scale and understand how people are offloading judgment and decision-making to AI. Applying our typology to public usage data (68K prompts from WildChat and ThoughtTrace), we find that LLM-as-oracle use has increased over time (2023-2026) and is more prevalent among younger users. We further build a privacy-preserving data donation tool to analyze individuals' longitudinal usage data (140K prompts from 52 participants), identifying similar trends. People are often unaware of their own LLM-as