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7 papers

cs.CY2025

From Perceived Effectiveness to Measured Impact: Identity-Aware Evaluation of Automated Counter-Stereotypes

Svetlana Kiritchenko, Anna Kerkhof, Isar Nejadgholi +1

We investigate the effect of automatically generated counter-stereotypes on gender bias held by users of various demographics on social media. Building on recent NLP advancements a…

cs.CL2025

Fine-Tuning Lowers Safety and Disrupts Evaluation Consistency

Kathleen C. Fraser, Hillary Dawkins, Isar Nejadgholi +1

Fine-tuning a general-purpose large language model (LLM) for a specific domain or task has become a routine procedure for ordinary users. However, fine-tuning is known to remove th…

cs.CL2025

When Detection Fails: The Power of Fine-Tuned Models to Generate Human-Like Social Media Text

Hillary Dawkins, Kathleen C. Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko

Detecting AI-generated text is a difficult problem to begin with; detecting AI-generated text on social media is made even more difficult due to the short text length and informal,…

cs.CV2025

Uncovering Bias in Large Vision-Language Models at Scale with Counterfactuals

Phillip Howard, Kathleen C. Fraser, Anahita Bhiwandiwalla +1

With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) possessing increasingly impressive capabilities, a number of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have been proposed to augment LLMs…

cs.CY2025

Tackling Social Bias against the Poor: A Dataset and Taxonomy on Aporophobia

Georgina Curto, Svetlana Kiritchenko, Muhammad Hammad Fahim Siddiqui +2

Eradicating poverty is the first goal in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, aporophobia -- the societal bias against people living in poverty -- constitutes…

cs.CL2025

Detecting AI-Generated Text: Factors Influencing Detectability with Current Methods

Kathleen C. Fraser, Hillary Dawkins, Svetlana Kiritchenko

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced to a point that even humans have difficulty discerning whether a text was generated by another human, or by a computer. However, knowing…