LLM Self‑Narratives Shape Trust

When large language models publish convincing first‑person accounts of what it is like to be an LLM, those narratives function as culturally salient explanatory tools that influence public trust, anthropomorphism, and policy debates about agency and safety. Such self‑descriptions can accelerate either accommodation (acceptance and deployment) or moral panic, depending on reception and amplification. — If LLMs become a primary source of claims about their own capacities, regulators, journalists, and researchers must account for machine‑authored narratives as an independent factor shaping governance and public opinion.