It appears that LLM addiction is real and it is in same room as we are: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/18/12/789
I would like to add that sugar consumption is a risk factor for many dependencies, including, but not limited to, opioids [1]. And LLM addiction can be seen as fallout of sugar overconsumption in general.
[1] https://news.uoguelph.ca/2017/10/sugar-in-the-diet-may-incre...
Yet, LLM addiction is being investigated in medical circles.
In my opinion, to participate in discussion through LLM is a sign of excessive LLM use. Which can be a sign of LLM addiction.
Users seem to be persistently flagkilling their comments. That doesn't help facilitate effective conversation of LLM critique.
If you express an anti-AI opinion (without neutering it by including "but actually it's soooooooo good at writing shitty code though") they will silence you.
The astroturfing is out of control.
AI firms and their delusional supporters are not at all interested in any sort of discussion.
These people and bot accounts will not take no for an answer.
In general, I've found that anti-LLM people are far more angry, vitriolic, unwilling to acknowledge or internalize the points of others — including factual ones (such as the fact that they are interpreting most of the studies they quote completely wrong, or that the water and energy issues they are so concerned with are not significant) and alternative moral concerns or beliefs (for instance, around copyright, or automation) — and spend all of their time repeating the exact same tropes about everyone who disagrees with them being addicted or fooled by persuasion techniques, as I thought terminating cliche to dismiss the beliefs and experiences of everyone else.