2 papers
cs.SI2026
Conspiracy Theory Rabbit Holes Emerge via Interacting Contagions
Fabian Tschofenig, Paul Vicinanza, Henrich Greve +2
Why do people fall into conspiracy theory rabbit holes? Prior research explains rabbit holes via psychological and algorithmic causes, yielding inconsistent findings. Here, we argu…
cs.CL2026
DialectLLM: A Dialect-Aware Dialog[ue] Generation Framework Beyond Standard American English
Jio Oh, Paul Vicinanza, Thomas Butler +3
More than 80% of the 1.6B English speakers do not use Standard American English (SAE), yet LLMs often fail to correctly identify non-SAE dialects and generate stereotyped responses…