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Cognitive offloading and the speedup illusion in human-AI interaction
Sunny Yu, Myra Cheng, Ahmad Jabbar +4
Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to boost human productivity by speeding up task completion -- provided users know when to offload cognitive work to them. But we do…
The efficiency-gain illusion: People underestimate the rate of AI use and overestimate its benefits on simple tasks
Sunny Yu, Myra Cheng, Ahmad Jabbar +4
People are increasingly turning to AI assistance for simple tasks, e.g., arithmetic, spell-check, and answering simple questions. But does AI assistance actually save users time an…
Verbalizing LLMs' assumptions to explain and control sycophancy
Myra Cheng, Isabel Sieh, Humishka Zope +7
LLMs can be socially sycophantic, affirming users when they ask questions like "am I in the wrong?" rather than providing genuine assessment. We hypothesize that this behavior aris…
Generation Space Size: Understanding and Calibrating Open-Endedness of LLM Generations
Sunny Yu, Ahmad Jabbar, Robert Hawkins +2
Different open-ended generation tasks require different degrees of output diversity. However, current LLMs are often miscalibrated. They collapse to overly homogeneous outputs for…
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe +3
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users…
ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs
Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Cinoo Lee +3
LLMs are known to exhibit sycophancy: agreeing with and flattering users, even at the cost of correctness. Prior work measures sycophancy only as direct agreement with users' expli…
HumT DumT: Measuring and controlling human-like language in LLMs
Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Dan Jurafsky
Should LLMs generate language that makes them seem human? Human-like language might improve user experience, but might also lead to deception, overreliance, and stereotyping. Asses…