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As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into online platforms and digital communication spaces, their potential to influence public discourse - particularly in contentious areas like climate change - requires…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Wenlu Fan , Wentao Xu

The task of persona-steered text generation requires large language models (LLMs) to generate text that reflects the distribution of views that an individual fitting a persona could have. People have multifaceted personas, but prior work on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Andy Liu , Mona Diab , Daniel Fried

Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to converse naturally is empowered by their ability to empathetically understand and respond to their users. However, emotional experiences are shaped by demographic and cultural contexts. This raises…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ananya Malik , Nazanin Sabri , Melissa Karnaze , Mai Elsherief

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for work, personal, and therapeutic purposes, researchers have begun to investigate these models' implicit and explicit moral views. Previous work, however, focuses on asking LLMs to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Andrew J. Peterson

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) highlight the need to align their behaviors with human values. A critical, yet understudied, issue is the potential divergence between an LLM's stated preferences (its reported alignment with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhuojun Gu , Quan Wang , Shuchu Han

Social bias is shaped by the accumulation of social perceptions towards targets across various demographic identities. To fully understand such social bias in large language models (LLMs), it is essential to consider the composite of social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jisu Shin , Hoyun Song , Huije Lee , Soyeong Jeong , Jong C. Park

Federal agencies are deploying large language models (LLMs) to categorize public comment corpora, where the model's organization of the record shapes what policymakers see and which arguments register. Standard evaluation, anchored on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Aisha Najera , Alvin Moon , Vedant Srinivasan , Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Do large language models (LLMs) make human-like linguistic generalizations? Dentella et al. (2023) ("DGL") prompt several LLMs ("Is the following sentence grammatically correct in English?") to elicit grammaticality judgments of 80 English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Jennifer Hu , Kyle Mahowald , Gary Lupyan , Anna Ivanova , Roger Levy

Researchers in social science and psychology have recently proposed using large language models (LLMs) as replacements for humans in behavioral research. In addition to arguments about whether LLMs accurately capture population-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Sonia K. Murthy , Tomer Ullman , Jennifer Hu

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong average performance yet remain unreliable at the instance level, with frequent hallucinations, brittle failures, and poorly calibrated confidence. We study reliability through the lens of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Pranav Kallem

Human judgments are inherently subjective and are actively affected by personal traits such as gender and ethnicity. While Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used to simulate human responses across diverse contexts, their ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Huaman Sun , Jiaxin Pei , Minje Choi , David Jurgens

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising avenues for methodological and applied innovations in survey research by using synthetic respondents to emulate human answers and behaviour, potentially mitigating measurement and representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Bastián González-Bustamante , Nando Verelst , Carla Cisternas

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for accessing information on the web. Their truthfulness and factuality are thus of great interest. To help users make the right decisions about the information they get, LLMs should not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chenglei Si , Navita Goyal , Sherry Tongshuang Wu , Chen Zhao , Shi Feng , Hal Daumé , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Large language models are increasingly used to represent human opinions, values, or beliefs, and their steerability towards these ideals is an active area of research. Existing work focuses predominantly on aligning marginal response…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tristan Williams , Franziska Weeber , Sebastian Padó , Alan Akbik

The recent excitement around generative models has sparked a wave of proposals suggesting the replacement of human participation and labor in research and development--e.g., through surveys, experiments, and interviews--with synthetic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shivani Kapania , William Agnew , Motahhare Eslami , Hoda Heidari , Sarah Fox

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate and edit scientific abstracts, yet their integration into academic writing raises questions about trust, quality, and disclosure. Despite growing adoption, little is known about…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Nil-Jana Akpinar , Sandeep Avula , CJ Lee , Brandon Dang , Kaza Razat , Vanessa Murdock

The increasing integration of large language models (LLMs) based conversational agents into everyday life raises critical cognitive and social questions about their potential to influence human opinions. Although previous studies have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Miriam Havin , Timna Wharton Kleinman , Moran Koren , Yaniv Dover , Ariel Goldstein

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used both to make decisions in domains such as health, education and law, and to simulate human behavior. Yet how closely LLMs mirror actual human decision-making remains poorly understood. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Andrea Cera Palatsi , Samuel Martin-Gutierrez , Ana S. Cardenal , Max Pellert

The conformity bias exhibited by large language models (LLMs) can pose a significant challenge to decision-making in LLM-based multi-agent systems (LLM-MAS). While many prior studies have treated "conformity" simply as a matter of opinion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Mikako Bito , Keita Nishimoto , Kimitaka Asatani , Ichiro Sakata

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has enabled us to seek answers to inherently debatable questions on LLM chatbots, necessitating a reliable way to evaluate their ability. However, traditional QA benchmarks assume fixed answers are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Rongwu Xu , Xuan Qi , Zehan Qi , Wei Xu , Zhijiang Guo