12 papers
How Far Did They Go? The Persuasive Tactics of Covert LLM Agents in a Discontinued Field Experiment
Kokil Jaidka, Saifuddin Ahmed
This study analyzes a publicly released dataset from a discontinued field experiment on Reddit's r/ChangeMyView. The intervention, conducted by unknown, external researchers and ha…
CommunityFact: A Dynamic, Multilingual, Multi-domain Benchmark for Misinformation Detection in the Wild
Sahajpreet Singh, Insyirah Mujtahid, Min-Yen Kan +1
Misinformation verification increasingly occurs in public, fast-moving, and multilingual online settings, where static benchmarks provide an incomplete measure of model reliability…
Althea: Human-AI Collaboration for Fact-Checking and Critical Reasoning
Svetlana Churina, Kokil Jaidka, Anab Maulana Barik +4
The web's information ecosystem demands fact-checking systems that are both scalable and epistemically trustworthy. Automated approaches offer efficiency but often lack transparenc…
From Passive to Persuasive: Localized Activation Injection for Empathy and Negotiation
Niranjan Chebrolu, Kokil Jaidka, Gerard Christopher Yeo
Complex social behaviors, such as empathy and strategic politeness, are widely assumed to resist the directional decomposition that makes activation steering effective for coarse a…
Learning Through Dialogue: Engagement and Efficacy Matter More Than Explanations
Shaz Furniturewala, Gerard Christopher Yeo, Kokil Jaidka
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as conversational partners for learning, yet the interactional dynamics supporting users' learning and engagement are understudie…
Labels or Input? Rethinking Augmentation in Multimodal Hate Detection
Sahajpreet Singh, Kokil Jaidka, Subhayan Mukerjee
Online hate remains a significant societal challenge, especially as multimodal content enables subtle, culturally grounded, and implicit forms of harm. Hateful memes embed hostilit…