Huge part of it. A big part of my idea of the negative impact of the internet in general is that it constantly exposes you to people who are doing the same things you love and are interested in, just way better and more effortless, alongside yet more people criticising even these golden gods for this or that failure you could only hope to reach.

It's an imposter syndrome machine, but one you could perhaps tune out because it wasn't really useful for much except entertainment. LLMs bring the experience of being followed around by that machine talking into your ear any time you have an issue or problem - you could just ask your fabulously talented friend to do it instead. And they are sadly tremendously useful so keeping that mental compartmentalisation is way harder

I think there is a basic human need to to be "the guy" everyone goes to when they need help with a specific thing. Where "everybody" is roughly a Dunbar's numbers worth of people, a tribe or a village if you will.

We've developed fabulously effective ways to wrench the fulfillment of this need away from a huge amount of people