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A Practice Auditing Framework for Large Language Model Use: Collective Empiricism, Pseudo-Rational Cognition, and Governance of AI-Generated Content

Computers and Society 2026-06-02 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Large language models are increasingly used for knowledge acquisition, code generation, academic writing, and agent-based automation. In these settings, users may obtain highly structured answers, plans, and judgments without sufficient domain practice. This paper proposes a practice auditing framework for LLM use and AI-generated content governance. It introduces collective empiricism to describe how LLMs compress and reorganize large-scale human experience into outputs that appear empirical and rational, and pseudo-rational cognition to describe how users may mistake AI-generated structured expression for their own rational understanding. The paper analyzes AI subjectivity illusion, subjectivity structures in input materials, template loops in AI-AI conversations, statistical misjudgment in AIGC detection, and memory pollution when generated content enters future contexts, long-term memory, retrieval spaces, or agent skill systems. To reduce these risks, the paper proposes an auditing process based on requirement definition, problem-boundary identification, evidence-source auditing, practical validation, reverse questioning, logging, version management, rollback, and renewed cognition. The framework does not reject AI productivity; it argues that LLM outputs should be returned to verifiable, reproducible, and intervenable processes of practice. The paper provides a conceptual and auditable framework for cognitive risks in LLM interaction, AI-generated content governance, long-term memory systems, and human-AI interaction.

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@article{arxiv.2607.01248,
  title  = {A Practice Auditing Framework for Large Language Model Use: Collective Empiricism, Pseudo-Rational Cognition, and Governance of AI-Generated Content},
  author = {Yang Zhao and Yingshuo Li and Zeyu Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.01248},
  year   = {2026}
}

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