4 papers
Beyond Cooperative Simulators: Generating Realistic User Personas for Robust Evaluation of LLM Agents
Harshita Chopra, Kshitish Ghate, Aylin Caliskan +3
Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in settings where they interact with a wide variety of people, including users who are unclear, impatient, or reluctant…
Characterizing Resource Sharing Practices on Underground Internet Forum Synthetic Non-Consensual Intimate Image Content Creation Communities
Bernardo B. P. Medeiros, Malvika Jadhav, Allison Lu +3
Many malicious actors responsible for disseminating synthetic non-consensual intimate imagery (SNCII) operate within internet forums to exchange resources, strategies, and generate…
A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset
Rachel Hong, Jevan Hutson, William Agnew +3
We investigate the contents of web-scraped data for training AI systems, at sizes where human dataset curators and compilers no longer manually annotate every sample. Building off…
Examining Risks in the AI Companion Application Ecosystem
Natalie Grace Brigham, Lucy Qin, Tadayoshi Kohno
While computer systems that allow users to interact through conversational natural language (i.e., chatbots) have existed for many years, varying types of applications advertising…