4 papers
With a Little Help From My Friends: Collective Manipulation in Risk-Controlling Recommender Systems
Giovanni De Toni, Cristian Consonni, Erasmo Purificato +2
Recommendation systems have become central gatekeepers of online information, shaping user behaviour across a wide range of activities. In response, users increasingly organize and…
Generative AI collective behavior needs an interactionist paradigm
Laura Ferrarotti, Gian Maria Campedelli, Roberto Dessì +7
In this article, we argue that understanding the collective behavior of agents based on large language models (LLMs) is an essential area of inquiry, with important implications in…
Beauty and the Bias: Exploring the Impact of Attractiveness on Multimodal Large Language Models
Aditya Gulati, Moreno D'IncÃ, Nicu Sebe +2
Physical attractiveness matters. It has been shown to influence human perception and decision-making, often leading to biased judgments that favor those deemed attractive in what i…
What is Beautiful is Still Good: The Attractiveness Halo Effect in the era of Beauty Filters
Aditya Gulati, Marina Martinez-Garcia, Daniel Fernandez +3
The impact of cognitive biases on decision-making in the digital world remains under-explored despite its well-documented effects in physical contexts. This study addresses this ga…