5 papers
Who Bears the Cost of Honesty? A FAccT Workshop Synthesis and Research Agenda for Equitable AI Disclosure
Runlong Ye, Jessica He, Finola Finn +4
AI disclosure is increasingly promoted and sometimes required as a route to transparency, accountability, provenance, and trust. Yet disclosure can also expose AI users to suspicio…
Digital Companionship: Overlapping Uses of AI Companions and AI Assistants
Aikaterina Manoli, Janet V. T. Pauketat, Ali Ladak +3
Large language models are increasingly used for both task-based assistance and social companionship, yet research has typically focused on one or the other. Drawing on a survey (N…
How AI Companionship Develops: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study
Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Fiona Li, Jacy Reese Anthis +1
The quickly growing popularity of AI companions poses risks to mental health, personal wellbeing, and social relationships. Past work has identified many individual factors that ca…
"It was 80% me, 20% AI": Seeking Authenticity in Co-Writing with Large Language Models
Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Q. Vera Liao, Su Lin Blodgett +2
Given the rising proliferation and diversity of AI writing assistance tools, especially those powered by large language models (LLMs), both writers and readers may have concerns ab…
From Fake Perfects to Conversational Imperfects: Exploring Image-Generative AI as a Boundary Object for Participatory Design of Public Spaces
Jose A. Guridi, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Duarte Santo +4
Designing public spaces requires balancing the interests of diverse stakeholders within a constrained physical and institutional space. Designers usually approach these problems th…