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Severe Prompt-Dependency Syndrome

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SEVERE
Diagnosis
Severe Prompt-Dependency Syndrome
Auxilium generativus dependentia
Clinical description

Patient cannot write an email, grocery list, or half-sentence apology without first consulting an AI. Has forgotten what their own voice sounds like. Frequently signs off with 'Happy to revise!'

Prognosis

The original voice is likely archived somewhere, possibly unrecoverable.

Recommended treatment

Attempted cold-turkey produced a LinkedIn post that was then run through the AI anyway.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Severe Prompt-Dependency Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Severe Prompt-Dependency Syndrome belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.

Under its Latin label Auxilium generativus dependentia, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.

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