As Large Language Models are integrated into daily life, there is emerging research that suggests this kind of AI can worsen reassurance-seeking compulsions in users with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This exemplifies a larger issue of disability and accessibility as an afterthought in engineering projects. As a result, systems like AI can harm groups of people that were overlooked in the design process, which is unacceptable in the case of technologies intended to be integrated on such a large scale.
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