Twenty minutes into drafting an article, I stopped. The voice was mine. The rhythm was mine. The vocabulary was mine. But the argument had moved somewhere I had not chosen to take it. I had opened the session with a clear thesis. The AI LLM assistant did not disagree with me. It had simply kept offering better-sounding alternatives. And I had kept accepting them. By the time I noticed, I could not easily identify where my thinking ended and the model’s thinking began.
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