"If You're Not Doing It, Somebody Else Is": Active Negotiation and the Invisible Labor of Sustained LLM Use
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Published by arXiv cs.HC (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30699.
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SummaryA qualitative study of 36 graduate students introduces the Active Negotiation framework, modeling sustained LLM use as a recurring cycle of risk, mitigation, and justification across practical, internal, and social dimensions, with continued adoption reframed as compliance sustained by invisible labor.
Why it mattersNames a three-dimensional framework from interview data that explains why distrusting users persist with LLMs, useful for researchers and tool designers re-framing adoption.
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