4 papers
Information Discernment in Large Language Models
Joshua Ashkinaze, Laura Kurek, Alina Faisal +4
LLMs are increasingly used with external knowledge sources like the internet. Do they weigh information appropriately -- updating more for reliable sources (source discernment) and…
Seeing Like an AI: How LLMs Apply (and Misapply) Wikipedia Neutrality Norms
Joshua Ashkinaze, Ruijia Guan, Laura Kurek +3
Large language models (LLMs) are trained on broad corpora and then used in communities with specialized norms. Is providing LLMs with community rules enough for models to follow th…
Follow Nudges without Budges: A Field Experiment on Misinformation Followers Didn't Change Follow Networks
Laura Kurek, Joshua Ashkinaze, Ceren Budak +1
Can digital ads encourage users exposed to inaccurate information sources to follow accurate ones? We conduct a large-scale field experiment (N=28,582) on X, formerly Twitter, with…
Outsourcing an Information Operation: A Complete Dataset of Tenet Media's Podcasts on Rumble
Laura Kurek, Kevin Zheng, Eric Gilbert +1
Tenet Media, a U.S.-based, right-wing media company, hired six established podcasters to create content related to U.S. politics and culture during the 2024 U.S. presidential elect…