Lighting Up or Dimming Down? Exploring Dark Patterns of LLMs in Co-Creativity

ArXi:2604.04735v1 Announce Type: new Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly acting as collaborative writing partners, raising questions about their impact on human agency. In this exploratory work, we investigate five "dark patterns" in human-AI co-creativity -- subtle model behaviors that can suppress or distort the creative process: Sycophancy, Tone Policing, Moralizing, Loop of Death, and Anchoring.