6 papers
How Far Will They Go? Red-Teaming Online Influence with Large Language Models
Daniel C. Ruiz, Anna Serbina, Ashwin Rao +2
As large language model (LLM)-based agents increasingly participate in online discourse, red-teaming their capacity to support political influence campaigns is critical for informa…
Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits
Jinyi Ye, Lei Cao, Ding Chen +1
The scientific claims drawn from LLM social simulations should be no stronger than the robustness audits that support them. Generative agents bring new expressive power to agent-ba…
LLMs can persuade only psychologically susceptible humans on societal issues, via trust in AI and emotional appeals, amid logical fallacies
Alexis Carrillo, Salvatore Citraro, Ali Aghazhadeh Ardebili +5
Scarce longitudinal evidence examines LLMs' persuasiveness and humanness along time-evolving psychological frameworks. We introduce Talk2AI, a longitudinal framework quantifying ps…
Mapping Election Toxicity on Social Media across Issue, Ideology, and Psychosocial Dimensions
Lei Cao, Wen Zeng, Xinyue Wu +2
Online political hostility is pervasive, yet it remains unclear how toxicity varies across campaign issues and political ideology, and what psychosocial signals and framing accompa…
Lost Before Translation: Social Information Transmission and Survival in AI-AI Communication
Bijean Ghafouri, Emilio Ferrara
When AI systems summarize and relay information, they inevitably transform it. But how? We introduce an experimental paradigm based on the telephone game to study what happens when…
Community Moderation and the New Epistemology of Fact Checking on Social Media
Isabelle Augenstein, Michiel Bakker, Tanmoy Chakraborty +13
Social media platforms have traditionally relied on internal moderation teams and partnerships with independent fact-checking organizations to identify and flag misleading content.…