4 papers
Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems
Myra Cheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alicia DeVrio +2
As text generation systems' outputs are increasingly anthropomorphic -- perceived as human-like -- scholars have also increasingly raised concerns about how such outputs can lead t…
Un-Straightening Generative AI: How Queer Artists Surface and Challenge the Normativity of Generative AI Models
Jordan Taylor, Joel Mire, Franchesca Spektor +4
Queer people are often discussed as targets of bias, harm, or discrimination in research on generative AI. However, the specific ways that queer people engage with generative AI, a…
AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans
Alexandra Olteanu, Solon Barocas, Su Lin Blodgett +3
There is a growing proliferation of AI systems designed to mimic people's behavior, work, abilities, likenesses, or humanness -- systems we dub AI automatons. Individuals, groups,…
A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies
Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede +2
Recent attention to anthropomorphism -- the attribution of human-like qualities to non-human objects or entities -- of language technologies like LLMs has sparked renewed discussio…