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20242026
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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Persuasion with Large Language Models: A Survey of Empirical Evidence, Study Methodologies, and Ethical Implications

Sander Noels, Alexander Rogiers, Maarten Buyl +1

The rapid rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has created new disruptive possibilities for persuasive communication, enabling fully-automated, personalized, and interactive conten…

cs.CL2026

VIGIL: An Extensible System for Real-Time Detection and Mitigation of Cognitive Bias Triggers

Bo Kang, Sander Noels, Tijl De Bie

The rise of generative AI is posing increasing risks to online information integrity and civic discourse. Most concretely, such risks can materialise in the form of mis- and disinf…

cs.CL2025

What Large Language Models Do Not Talk About: An Empirical Study of Moderation and Censorship Practices

Sander Noels, Guillaume Bied, Maarten Buyl +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as gateways to information, yet their content moderation practices remain underexplored. This work investigates the extent to…

cs.CL2025

Large Language Models Reflect the Ideology of their Creators

Maarten Buyl, Alexander Rogiers, Sander Noels +8

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of data to generate natural language, enabling them to perform tasks like text summarization and question answering. These…

cs.CE2024

A Dutch Financial Large Language Model

Sander Noels, Jorne De Blaere, Tijl De Bie

This paper presents FinGEITje, the first Dutch financial Large Language Model (LLM) specifically designed and optimized for various financial tasks. Together with the model, we rel…