"Oops! ChatGPT is Temporarily Unavailable!": A Diary Study on Knowledge Workers' Experiences of LLM Withdrawal
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| author | Oh, Eunseo Lee, Suyoun Choi, Jae Young Park, Soobin Lim, Youn-kyung |
| author_facet | Oh, Eunseo Lee, Suyoun Choi, Jae Young Park, Soobin Lim, Youn-kyung |
| contents | 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. Our findings show how LLM withdrawal disrupted participants' workflows by identifying gaps in task execution, how self-directed work led participants to reclaim professional values, and how everyday practices revealed the extent to which LLM use had become inescapably normative. Conceptualizing LLMs as infrastructural to contemporary knowledge work, this research contributes empirical insights into the often invisible role of LLMs and proposes value-driven appropriation as an approach to supporting professional values in the current LLM-pervasive work environment. |
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| spellingShingle | "Oops! ChatGPT is Temporarily Unavailable!": A Diary Study on Knowledge Workers' Experiences of LLM Withdrawal Oh, Eunseo Lee, Suyoun Choi, Jae Young Park, Soobin Lim, Youn-kyung Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence 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. Our findings show how LLM withdrawal disrupted participants' workflows by identifying gaps in task execution, how self-directed work led participants to reclaim professional values, and how everyday practices revealed the extent to which LLM use had become inescapably normative. Conceptualizing LLMs as infrastructural to contemporary knowledge work, this research contributes empirical insights into the often invisible role of LLMs and proposes value-driven appropriation as an approach to supporting professional values in the current LLM-pervasive work environment. |
| title | "Oops! ChatGPT is Temporarily Unavailable!": A Diary Study on Knowledge Workers' Experiences of LLM Withdrawal |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26099 |