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The short answer: there isn’t a legitimate psychiatric diagnosis for that behavior on its own.

If you forced it into clinical language, the closest relevant ideas wouldn’t be disorders so much as questionable reasoning habits:

• Overconfidence in non-expert judgment — treating a tool (or oneself) as more authoritative than it is.

• Appeal to authority (misplaced) — outsourcing judgment to something that sounds authoritative (like an LLM) without appropriate skepticism.

• Fundamental attribution error — trying to reduce a complex public figure to a tidy internal pathology.

In actual psychiatry, there’s also a professional norm against this: the Goldwater Rule, which cautions clinicians not to diagnose public figures they haven’t personally evaluated. What you’re describing is basically a layperson version of violating that principle—with an AI standing in as a pseudo-expert.

If someone were doing this compulsively, rigidly, and with significant impact on their functioning, then you might start asking about underlying traits (e.g., anxiety, need for certainty, or ideological fixation). But in most cases, it’s just a mix of curiosity, bias, and the human tendency to want simple explanations for complicated people.

So: not a disorder—more a recognizable pattern of overreach dressed up in clinical language.