Arthur Hjorth will present on the "AUFF-project: Trust, Revisited":

In this talk, I will present the new AUFF NOVA-project, Trust, revisited, including the planned studies, hypotheses, and LLM-focused design work. Background: The release of ChatGPT and OpenAI’s Large Language Model (LLM) API, enabling anyone to generate massive amounts of text indistinguishable from human-generated text, came during an unprecedented drop in the general public’s trust in what we read in general and about science in particular. LLMs can engage in conversations with people through chatbots and adapt their responses to the topic and tone of the conversation, cultivate trust and emotional connections, thus making them more persuasive and morally corruptive. The ease with which they can programmed to automatically respond to newspaper comment sections and on social media has the potential to create adaptive and trustworthy misinformation at a scale never seen before. The confluence of these technical and social developments creates an urgent need to better understand whether and how the adaptive nature of LLM-based chatbots can engage with humans in trust-cultivating ways – for good and for bad – and potentially change attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors. Trust, Revisited does so by "revisiting" existing, non-AI-based studies on people’s attitudes, knowledge, and behavior with online experiments using chatbots powered by LLMs, thereby working from established and comparable baselines to explore trust-cultivation and LLMs.

The Center for Language Generation and AI at Aarhus University is committed to fostering the interchange of ideas and support for researchers in the area of language generation and AI. By opening our biweekly talks to the public, we aim to create a platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration among researchers, students, and the broader community.

These talks will be conducted virtually, allowing attendees from around the world to participate. Registration details and links to join each talk will be provided on our website. All talk will take place at 13:30 (CEST) on Zoom. The link is: https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/66002478758

For more information and updates on our biweekly talks, please check our news page or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter.

For media inquiries and questions, please contact: pascale.moreira@cc.au.dk

Arthur Hjorth will present on the "AUFF-project: Trust, Revisited":

In this talk, I will present the new AUFF NOVA-project, Trust, revisited, including the planned studies, hypotheses, and LLM-focused design work. Background: The release of ChatGPT and OpenAI’s Large Language Model (LLM) API, enabling anyone to generate massive amounts of text indistinguishable from human-generated text, came during an unprecedented drop in the general public’s trust in what we read in general and about science in particular. LLMs can engage in conversations with people through chatbots and adapt their responses to the topic and tone of the conversation, cultivate trust and emotional connections, thus making them more persuasive and morally corruptive. The ease with which they can programmed to automatically respond to newspaper comment sections and on social media has the potential to create adaptive and trustworthy misinformation at a scale never seen before. The confluence of these technical and social developments creates an urgent need to better understand whether and how the adaptive nature of LLM-based chatbots can engage with humans in trust-cultivating ways – for good and for bad – and potentially change attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors. Trust, Revisited does so by "revisiting" existing, non-AI-based studies on people’s attitudes, knowledge, and behavior with online experiments using chatbots powered by LLMs, thereby working from established and comparable baselines to explore trust-cultivation and LLMs.

The Center for Language Generation and AI at Aarhus University is committed to fostering the interchange of ideas and support for researchers in the area of language generation and AI. By opening our biweekly talks to the public, we aim to create a platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration among researchers, students, and the broader community.

These talks will be conducted virtually, allowing attendees from around the world to participate. Registration details and links to join each talk will be provided on our website. All talk will take place at 13:30 (CEST) on Zoom. The link is: https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/66002478758

For more information and updates on our biweekly talks, please check our news page or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter.

For media inquiries and questions, please contact: pascale.moreira@cc.au.dk