9 papers
Happy Young Women, Grumpy Old Men? Emotion-Driven Demographic Biases in Synthetic Face Generation
Mengting Wei, Aditya Gulati, Guoying Zhao +1
Synthetic faces from text-to-image (T2I) models pervade digital media, yet their demographic biases under emotionally conditioned prompts remain poorly understood. We aim to system…
Why do we Trust Chatbots? From Normative Principles to Behavioral Drivers
Aditya Gulati, Nuria Oliver
As chatbots increasingly blur the boundary between automated systems and human conversation, the foundations of trust in these systems warrant closer examination. While regulatory…
Mind the Style: Impact of Communication Style on Human-Chatbot Interaction
Erik Derner, Dalibor KuÄera, Dalibor Kučera +3
Conversational agents increasingly mediate everyday digital interactions, yet the effects of their communication style on user experience and task success remain insufficiently und…
Aesthetics as Structural Harm: Algorithmic Lookism Across Text-to-Image Generation and Classification
Miriam Doh, Aditya Gulati, Corinna Canali +1
This paper examines algorithmic lookism-the systematic preferential treatment based on physical appearance-in text-to-image (T2I) generative AI and a downstream gender classificati…
Beauty and the Bias: Exploring the Impact of Attractiveness on Multimodal Large Language Models
Aditya Gulati, Moreno D'IncÃ, Nicu Sebe +2
Physical attractiveness matters. It has been shown to influence human perception and decision-making, often leading to biased judgments that favor those deemed attractive in what i…
When Algorithms Play Favorites: Lookism in the Generation and Perception of Faces
Miriam Doh, Aditya Gulati, Matei Mancas +1
This paper examines how synthetically generated faces and machine learning-based gender classification algorithms are affected by algorithmic lookism, the preferential treatment ba…