7 papers
Harm in AI-Driven Societies: An Audit of Toxicity Adoption on Chirper.ai
Erica Coppolillo, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in autonomous agents that engage, converse, and co-evolve in online social platforms. While prior work has documented the gen…
Gendered Pathways in AI Companionship: Cross-Community Behavior and Toxicity Patterns on Reddit
Erica Coppolillo, Emilio Ferrara
AI-companionship platforms are rapidly reshaping how people form emotional, romantic, and parasocial bonds with non-human agents, raising new questions about how these relationship…
Limited Effectiveness of LLM-based Data Augmentation for COVID-19 Misinformation Stance Detection
Eun Cheol Choi, Ashwin Balasubramanian, Jinhu Qi +1
Misinformation surrounding emerging outbreaks poses a serious societal threat, making robust countermeasures essential. One promising approach is stance detection (SD), which ident…
Beyond Interaction Patterns: Assessing Claims of Coordinated Inter-State Information Operations on Twitter/X
Valeria Pantè, David Axelrod, Alessandro Flammini +3
Social media platforms have become key tools for coordinated influence operations, enabling state actors to manipulate public opinion through strategic, collective actions. While p…
Safe Spaces or Toxic Places? Content Moderation and Social Dynamics of Online Eating Disorder Communities
Kristina Lerman, Minh Duc Chu, Charles Bickham +2
Social media platforms have become critical spaces for discussing mental health concerns, including eating disorders. While these platforms can provide valuable support networks, t…
IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operations
Marco Minici, Luca Luceri, Francesco Fabbri +1
Social media platforms have become vital spaces for public discourse, serving as modern agoràs where a wide range of voices influence societal narratives. However, their open natur…