4 papers
Simulating Online Social Media Conversations on Controversial Topics Using AI Agents Calibrated on Real-World Data
Elisa Composta, Nicolo' Fontana, Francesco Corso +1
Online social networks offer a valuable lens to analyze both individual and collective phenomena. Researchers often use simulators to explore controlled scenarios, and the integrat…
Towards an Automated Framework to Audit Youth Safety on TikTok
Linda Xue, Francesco Corso, Nicolo' Fontana +3
This paper investigates the effectiveness of TikTok's enforcement mechanisms for limiting the exposure of harmful content to youth accounts. We collect over 7000 videos, classify t…
Evaluating open-source Large Language Models for automated fact-checking
Nicolo' Fontana, Francesco Corso, Enrico Zuccolotto +1
The increasing prevalence of online misinformation has heightened the demand for automated fact-checking solutions. Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as potential tools for…
Nicer Than Humans: How do Large Language Models Behave in the Prisoner's Dilemma?
Nicoló Fontana, Francesco Pierri, Luca Maria Aiello
The behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) as artificial social agents is largely unexplored, and we still lack extensive evidence of how these agents react to simple social stim…