AI RESEARCH
"Oops! ChatGPT is Temporarily Unavailable!": A Diary Study on Knowledge Workers' Experiences of LLM Withdrawal
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.26099v1 Announce Type: cross LLMs have become deeply embedded in knowledge work, raising concerns about growing dependency and the potential undermining of human skills. To investigate the pervasiveness of LLMs in work practices, we conducted a four-day diary study with frequent LLM users (N=10), observing how knowledge workers responded to a temporary withdrawal of LLMs.