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X-pressing Intimacy: Mental Health Disclosure After Twitter Acquisition

Olivia Pal, Yunhao Yuan, Meghana Mandava +3

Social media platforms provide spaces for individuals to disclose mental health experiences and seek support, yet how these disclosures evolve during major shifts in platform gover…

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Trustworthy FinAInce: Unpacking How AI-Mediated Financial Advice is Judged

Aryan Ramchandra Kapadia, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Koustuv Saha

As generative AI is increasingly used as a source of personal financial guidance, understanding how people appraise such advice is important for supporting appropriate reliance. We…

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From Web(logs) to Web(AI): Questions, Platforms, and Methods across Twenty Editions of ICWSM

Koustuv Saha, Eshwar Chandrasekharan

Over twenty editions, the ICWSM community has examined social life online as platforms, interactions, and research methods have changed. What can this body of research tell us at t…

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First Impressions: How Placement Shapes the Influence of AI Summaries

Wang Claire, Agam Goyal, Frederick Choi +2

AI-generated summaries increasingly mediate how people interpret information across platforms, including product reviews on e-commerce sites. Using Amazon's AI summaries as a case…

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Using LLMs to Mimic the Conversational Dynamics of Reddit Communities

Vedaant Jain, Yoshee Jain, Ishq Gupta +3

Online communities face a constant battle against toxicity and misinformation. While human moderators struggle to keep pace with the volume of content, LLMs offer a promising solut…

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How People Evaluate AI-, Expert-, and Peer-Style Financial Advice

Aryan Ramchandra Kapadia, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Koustuv Saha

As generative AI increasingly becomes a common source of daily decision-making, including financial choices, it is critical to understand how people evaluate AI-generated financial…

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AI Content Moderation in Therapy Conversations

Jiwon Kim, Claire Wang, Taeung Yoon +2

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used for emotional support. They are also being developed for formal therapy purposes. However, LLMs like ChaptGPT or Llama are…

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Causal Stories from Sensor Traces: Auditing Epistemic Overreach in LLM-Generated Personal Sensing Explanations

Shanshan Zhu, Han Zhang, J. Doris Chi +2

LLMs are increasingly used to explain personal sensing data, translating traces of activity and mood into natural-language accounts of why an anomalous day may have occurred. Howev…

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Do We Know What They Know We Know? Calibrating Student Trust in AI and Human Responses Through Mutual Theory of Mind

Olivia Pal, Veda Duddu, Agam Goyal +2

Trust and reliance are often treated as coupled constructs in human-AI interaction research, with the assumption that calibrating trust will lead to appropriate reliance. We challe…

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The Hidden Toll of Social Media News: Causal Effects on Psychosocial Wellbeing

Olivia Pal, Agam Goyal, Eshwar Chandrasekharan +1

News consumption on social media has become ubiquitous, yet how different forms of engagement shape psychosocial outcomes remains unclear. To address this gap, we leveraged a large…

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RubRIX: Rubric-Driven Risk Mitigation in Caregiver-AI Interactions

Drishti Goel, Jeongah Lee, Qiuyue Joy Zhong +5

Caregivers seeking AI-mediated support express complex needs---information-seeking, emotional validation, and distress cues---that warrant careful evaluation of response safety and…

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PAIR-SAFE: A Paired-Agent Approach for Runtime Auditing and Refining AI-Mediated Mental Health Support

Jiwon Kim, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Dong Whi Yoo +2

LLMs are increasingly used for mental health support, yet they can produce responses that are overly directive, inconsistent, or clinically misaligned. Most risk mitigation approac…

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VASTU: Language Models Struggle to Recognize Online Community Values

Agam Goyal, Xianyang Zhan, Charlotte Lambert +2

Online communities develop distinct norms for content they collectively value, yet it remains unclear whether current language models can recognize locally valued contributions in…