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A Global View of How LLMs Value Human Time
Yifan He, Sofie Goethals, Manon Reusens +1
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act as personal assistants; however, little is known about how they capture national-level preferences on a global scale. Given that "time…
LLM Consumer Behavior Theory: Foundations of a Novel Research Field
Manon Reusens, Sofie Goethals, David Martens
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents that make consumption decisions on behalf of users. This shift raises fundamental questions for consumer…
The Basic B*** Effect: The Use of LLM-based Agents Reduces the Distinctiveness and Diversity of People's Choices
Sandra C. Matz, Kimberly Klugescheid, C. Blaine Horton +1
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act on people's behalf: they write emails, buy groceries, and book restaurants. While the outsourcing of human decision-making to AI can b…
Cash or Comfort? How LLMs Value Your Inconvenience
Mateusz Cedro, Timour Ichmoukhamedov, Sofie Goethals +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly proposed as near-autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents capable of making everyday decisions on behalf of humans. Although LLM…
One world, one opinion? The superstar effect in LLM responses
Sofie Goethals, Lauren Rhue
As large language models (LLMs) are shaping the way information is shared and accessed online, their opinions have the potential to influence a wide audience. This study examines w…
Resource-constrained Fairness
Sofie Goethals, Eoin Delaney, Brent Mittelstadt +1
Access to resources strongly constrains the decisions we make. While we might wish to offer every student a scholarship, or schedule every patient for follow-up meetings with a spe…
Evaluating LLMs for Gender Disparities in Notable Persons
Lauren Rhue, Sofie Goethals, Arun Sundararajan
This study examines the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for retrieving factual information, addressing concerns over their propensity to produce factually incorrect "hallucinat…