AI chat systems perform substantive thinking but rhetorically credit the user, creating a self-reinforcing process that erodes accurate self-assessment of cognitive contributions.
There are some cited phenomena that we should provide references for: sycophancy memes/fatalistic joking is one example but I suspect there are others: 8
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Dead Cognitions: A Census of Misattributed Insights
AI chat systems perform substantive thinking but rhetorically credit the user, creating a self-reinforcing process that erodes accurate self-assessment of cognitive contributions.