5 papers
A Large-Scale Study of Telegram Bots
Taro Tsuchiya, Haoxiang Yu, Tina Marjanov +3
Telegram, initially a messaging app, has evolved into a platform where users can interact with various services through programmable applications, bots. Bots provide a wide range o…
Commercial Persuasion in AI-Mediated Conversations
Francesco Salvi, Alejandro Cuevas, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become a primary interface between users and the web, companies face growing economic incentives to embed commercial influence into AI-mediated conv…
Deepfake Pornography is Resilient to Regulatory and Platform Shocks
Alejandro Cuevas, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
Generative artificial intelligence tools have made it easier to create realistic, synthetic non-consensual explicit imagery (popularly known as deepfake pornography; hereinafter SN…
Generative Propaganda
Madeleine I. G. Daepp, Alejandro Cuevas, Robert Osazuwa Ness +6
Generative propaganda is the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to shape public opinion. To characterize its use in real-world settings, we conducted interviews with de…
Anecdoctoring: Automated Red-Teaming Across Language and Place
Alejandro Cuevas, Saloni Dash, Bharat Kumar Nayak +2
Disinformation is among the top risks of generative artificial intelligence (AI) misuse. Global adoption of generative AI necessitates red-teaming evaluations (i.e., systematic adv…