Ask ChatGPT: Caveats and Mitigations for Individual Users of AI Chatbots

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10272v1
• Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 01:40:13 GMT
• Title: Ask ChatGPT: Caveats and Mitigations for Individual Users of AI Chatbots
• Authors: Chengen Wang, Murat Kantarcioglu,
• Abstract summary: ChatGPT and other Large Language Model (LLM)-based AI chatbots become increasingly integrated into individuals' daily lives.<n>What concerns and risks do these systems pose for individual users?<n>What potential harms might they cause, and how can these be mitigated?
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: As ChatGPT and other Large Language Model (LLM)-based AI chatbots become increasingly integrated into individuals' daily lives, important research questions arise. What concerns and risks do these systems pose for individual users? What potential harms might they cause, and how can these be mitigated? In this work, we review recent literature and reports, and conduct a comprehensive investigation into these questions. We begin by explaining how LLM-based AI chatbots work, providing essential background to help readers understand chatbots' inherent limitations. We then identify a range of risks associated with individual use of these chatbots, including hallucinations, intrinsic biases, sycophantic behavior, cognitive decline from overreliance, social isolation, and privacy leakage. Finally, we propose several key mitigation strategies to address these concerns. Our goal is to raise awareness of the potential downsides of AI chatbot use, and to empower users to enhance, rather than diminish, human intelligence, to enrich, rather than compromise, daily life.

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