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Generative AI appears poised to transform white collar professions, with more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies using OpenAI's flagship GPT models, which have been characterized as "general purpose technologies" capable of effecting epochal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Robert Wolfe , Tanushree Mitra

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly power generative search engines which, in turn, drive human information seeking and decision making at scale. The extent to which humans trust generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Haiwen Li , Sinan Aral

Ever since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, serious concerns have been raised about the impact and potentially dire consequences of the increasingly widespread use of generative AI tools for purposes of scientific writing and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Paul G. Schmidt , Amnon J. Meir

Calls to use open generative language models in academic research have highlighted the need for reproducibility and transparency in scientific research. However, the impact of generative AI extends well beyond academia, as corporations and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Robert Wolfe , Tanushree Mitra

Generative search engines increasingly determine whether online information is merely discoverable, cited as a source, or actually absorbed into generated answers. This paper proposes a two-stage measurement framework for Generative Engine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zhang Kai , He Xinyue , Yao Jingang

Generative search engines are reshaping information access by replacing traditional ranked lists with synthesized answers and references. In parallel, with the growth of Web3 platforms, incentive-driven creator ecosystems have become an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shayan Alipour , Mehdi Kargar , Morteza Zihayat

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly populating medical records with synthetic content, creating a feedback loop where future models are increasingly at risk of training on uncurated AI-generated data. However, the clinical…

We analyze answers generated by generative engines (GEs) from the perspectives of citation publishers and the content-injection barrier, defined as the difficulty for attackers to manipulate answers to user prompts by placing malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Riku Mochizuki , Shusuke Komatsu , Souta Noguchi , Kazuto Ataka

Synthetic Data is not new, but recent advances in Generative AI have raised interest in expanding the research toolbox, creating new opportunities and risks. This article provides a taxonomy of the full breadth of the Synthetic Data domain.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Richard Timpone , Yongwei Yang

Patients have long sought health information online, and increasingly, they are turning to generative AI to answer their health-related queries. Given the high stakes of the medical domain, techniques like retrieval-augmented generation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Lionel Wong , Ayman Ali , Raymond Xiong , Shannon Zeijang Shen , Yoon Kim , Monica Agrawal

AI-powered answer engines are inherently non-deterministic: identical queries submitted at different times can produce different responses and cite different sources. Despite this stochastic behavior, current approaches to measuring domain…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-11 Ronald Sielinski

People are increasingly turning to generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot) for emotional support and companionship. While trust is likely to play a central role in enabling these informal and unsupervised interactions, we still lack…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Riccardo Volpato , Simone Stumpf , Lisa DeBruine

Recently, ChatGPT, along with DALL-E-2 and Codex,has been gaining significant attention from society. As a result, many individuals have become interested in related resources and are seeking to uncover the background and secrets behind its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yihan Cao , Siyu Li , Yixin Liu , Zhiling Yan , Yutong Dai , Philip S. Yu , Lichao Sun

As generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly applied in persona development to represent real users, understanding the implications and limitations of this technology is essential for establishing robust practices. This scoping review analyzes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Danial Amin , Joni Salminen , Farhan Ahmed , Sonja M. H. Tervola , Sankalp Sethi , Bernard J. Jansen

Generative search engines have the potential to transform how people seek information online, but generated responses from existing large language models (LLMs)-backed generative search engines may not always be accurate. Nonetheless,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xuming Hu , Xiaochuan Li , Junzhe Chen , Yinghui Li , Yangning Li , Xiaoguang Li , Yasheng Wang , Qun Liu , Lijie Wen , Philip S. Yu , Zhijiang Guo

AI answer engines generate answers from retrieved pages but cite only a few sources. This makes visibility depend not just on ranking, but on being cited. We study competitive Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): when two retrieved…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rahul Vishwakarma , Shushant Kumar , Ratnesh Jamidar

The purpose of this study is to assess how large language models (LLMs) can be used for fact-checking and contribute to the broader debate on the use of automated means for veracity identification. To achieve this purpose, we use AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Elizaveta Kuznetsova , Ilaria Vitulano , Mykola Makhortykh , Martha Stolze , Tomas Nagy , Victoria Vziatysheva

AI and generative AI tools, including chatbots like ChatGPT that rely on large language models (LLMs), have burst onto the scene this year, creating incredible opportunities to increase work productivity and improve our lives. Statisticians…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Mark Glickman , Yi Zhang

Google AI Overviews (AIOs) are arguably the most widely encountered deployment of generative AI, reaching over 2 billion users who may not realize the answers they see are AI-generated. Where search engines have traditionally surfaced…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Haofei Xu , Umar Iqbal , Jacob M. Montgomery

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and large models are producing realistic outputs across various domains, such as images, text, speech, and music. Creating these advanced generative models requires significant resources,…