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The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has great potential to reshape the landscape of many social media platforms. While this can bring promising opportunities, it also raises many threats, such as biases and privacy concerns, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Kristina Radivojevic , Nicholas Clark , Paul Brenner

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in shaping public understanding on contested issues. This has led to substantial discussion about the potential of LLMs to reinforce or correct misperceptions. While existing literature…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Adiba Mahbub Proma , Neeley Pate , Sean Kelty , Gourab Ghoshal , James N. Druckman , Ehsan Hoque

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) have demonstrated human-level performance on a vast spectrum of natural language tasks. However, few studies have addressed the LLM threat and vulnerability from an ideology perspective, especially when they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Xiaotian Zhou , Qian Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Haixu Tang , Xiaozhong Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to aid and improve human decision-making in classification tasks, not only by providing fairly accurate predictions, but also in their ability to generate cogent narrative explanations of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Laura R. Marusich , Mary Grace Kozuch Dhooghe , Jonathan Z. Bakdash , Murat Kantarcioglu

There are widespread fears that conversational AI could soon exert unprecedented influence over human beliefs. Here, in three large-scale experiments (N=76,977), we deployed 19 LLMs-including some post-trained explicitly for persuasion-to…

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become a primary interface between users and the web, companies face growing economic incentives to embed commercial influence into AI-mediated conversations. We present two preregistered experiments (N =…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Francesco Salvi , Alejandro Cuevas , Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Generative AI, including large language models (LLMs) have the potential -- and already are being used -- to increase the speed, scale, and types of unsafe conversations online. LLMs lower the barrier for entry for bad actors to create…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Owen Hoffman , Kangze Peng , Zehua You , Sajid Kamal , Sukrit Venkatagiri

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in learning environments to support teaching-be it as learning companions or as tutors. With our contribution, we aim to discuss the implications of the anthropomorphization of LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Kristina Schaaff , Marc-André Heidelmann

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as formidable instruments capable of comprehending and producing human-like text. This paper explores the potential of LLMs, to shape user perspectives and subsequently influence their decisions on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ganesh Prasath Ramani , Shirish Karande , Santhosh V , Yash Bhatia

This study examines the rhetorical and linguistic features of argumentative texts generated by ChatGPT on ethically nuanced topics and investigates their persuasive impact on human readers.Through a user study involving 62 participants and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Daniel Raffini , Agnese Macori , Lorenzo Porcaro , Tiziana Catarci , Marco Angelini

This study investigates the capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to infer the Big Five personality traits from free-form user interactions. The results demonstrate that a chatbot powered by GPT-4 can infer personality with moderate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Heinrich Peters , Moran Cerf , Sandra C. Matz

In recent years, generative AI has undergone major advancements, demonstrating significant promise in augmenting human productivity. Notably, large language models (LLM), with ChatGPT-4 as an example, have drawn considerable attention.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Sida Peng , Wojciech Swiatek , Allen Gao , Paul Cullivan , Haoge Chang

In recent years, significant concern has emerged regarding the potential threat that Large Language Models (LLMs) pose to democratic societies through their persuasive capabilities. We expand upon existing research by conducting two survey…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Zhongren Chen , Joshua Kalla , Quan Le , Shinpei Nakamura-Sakai , Jasjeet Sekhon , Ruixiao Wang

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for persuasion, such as in political communication and marketing, where they affect how people think, choose, and act. Yet, empirical findings on the effectiveness of LLMs in persuasion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Lukas Hölbling , Sebastian Maier , Stefan Feuerriegel

In this study, we investigate the capabilities and inherent biases of advanced large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in the context of debate evaluation. We discover that LLM's performance exceeds humans and surpasses the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xinyi Liu , Pinxin Liu , Hangfeng He

As large language models (LLMs) enter the mainstream, aligning them to foster constructive dialogue rather than exacerbate societal divisions is critical. Using an individualized and multicultural alignment dataset of over 7,500…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yara Kyrychenko , Jon Roozenbeek , Brandon Davidson , Sander van der Linden , Ramit Debnath

Despite the many use cases for large language models (LLMs) in creating personalized chatbots, there has been limited research on evaluating the extent to which the behaviors of personalized LLMs accurately and consistently reflect specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Hang Jiang , Xiajie Zhang , Xubo Cao , Cynthia Breazeal , Deb Roy , Jad Kabbara

Large language models (LLMs) provide a new way to build chatbots by accepting natural language prompts. Yet, it is unclear how to design prompts to power chatbots to carry on naturalistic conversations while pursuing a given goal, such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jing Wei , Sungdong Kim , Hyunhoon Jung , Young-Ho Kim

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be persuasive across a variety of contexts. But it remains unclear whether this persuasive power advantages truth over falsehood, or if LLMs can promote misbeliefs just as easily as refuting…