5 papers
Source Attribution and Audience Uptake in Digital Witnessing: Evidence from a Chinese Diaspora Account on X
Huiqian Lai, Runze Ding
Digital-witnessing research explains how citizen testimony becomes publicly visible. Less is known about audience uptake after publication and whether the attributed source corresp…
Desirability Confirmation: Relational Sycophancy in AI Intimate Roleplay
Huiqian Lai, Runze Ding
Research on LLM sycophancy has largely focused on propositional agreement, in which models echo users' beliefs, preferences, or judgments. Adult intimate roleplay presents a differ…
Do LLM Debates Repeat Arguments Differently Across Languages?
Huiqian Lai
LLM debate is usually evaluated by final answers, yet transcripts reveal whether later turns develop new arguments or return to earlier claims in new wording. We study this process…
Fast-Food Intimacy: How Chinese Women Navigate Soul's AI Boyfriend
Huiqian Lai, EunJeong Cheon
On the Chinese social app Soul, millions of users - predominantly young women - are forming romantic connections with an AI boyfriend called "With-you." We conducted a qualitative…
Are LLMs More Skeptical of Entertainment News?
Huiqian Lai
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for automated news credibility assessment, yet it remains unclear whether they apply even-handed standards across journalistic ge…