The paper introduces Vocalizer, a mobile app that lets users submit spoken online reviews enhanced by a large language model. A longitudinal study shows that users often use the AI to add detail and that interactive AI features boost confidence and willingness to share reviews. The authors also outline the benefits and challenges of embedding AI assistance in review-writing systems.
By Kavindu Perera, D\'aniel Szab\'o, Niels van Berkel, Aku Visuri, Chi-Lan Yang, Koji Yatani, Simo Hosio
Mobile app reviews are a rich, continuously renewing source of how users experience privacy and security, yet existing taxonomies of these concerns are hand-crafted and cannot keep pace with the evolving nature of the data. Automating taxonomy construction is the natural response, but scalability is the core challenge: current LLM- and clustering-based methods are developed for scientific corpora of a few thousand documents and do not extend to app review collections numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
arXiv:2607. 01510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents that autonomously execute tool calls on a user's behalf raise pressing questions about permission management: what role could users play, and what role should they play?
By Natalie Grace Brigham, Eugene Bagdasarian, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner
The study analyzes 17,012 app‑store reviews for six major generative‑AI apps, using BERTopic and RoBERTa to uncover topics and sentiment. Negative sentiment is most common around advertising, authentication, server reliability, and subscription pricing, with significant differences across apps—Claude shows the highest negative sentiment yet a highly enthusiastic user base. The authors also note geopolitical and privacy concerns for DeepSeek and propose a Trust Friction Score to quantify trust and usability barriers.
By Md Jafrin Hossain, Umme Nusrat Jahan, Shouvaggo Sharif Shammo
arXiv:2607. 24601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate code review, but the reasoning behind their decisions remains hard to understand.
By Zhenhan Gao, Marvin Mu\~noz Bar\'on, Umm-e Habiba, Daniel Graziotin, Stefan Wagner
arXiv:2605. 09028v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning-based Android malware detectors often fail in real-world deployment due to domain shift, where models trained on one data source perform poorly on applications from another.
By Md Rafid Islam
The paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) can evaluate explanations in recommender systems. It generates 18 explanation prototypes and has 14 LLMs rate them, comparing the results to human ratings from a user study. Findings show that while LLMs mimic human rating patterns and correlate moderately with human judgments, their absolute agreement is low and varies with model size and evaluation design, leading to four practical recommendations for using LLMs in this context.
By Kathrin Wardatzky, Oana Inel, Luca Rossetto, Abraham Bernstein
arXiv:2607. 28617v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: System prompts are instructions configured by developers to govern the behaviors of foundation models in AI applications.
By Xiangning Lin, Shenzhe Zhu, Shu Yang, Zhenyu Zhang, Haoqian Zhang, Yipeng Zhao, Chengxuan Qian, Tianwei Wang, Ziheng Zhang, Zhenlong Yuan, Dingcheng Wang, Juncheng Wu, Yuan Si, Jiaxin Liu, Baolong Bi, Robert Mahari, Tobin South, Dazza Greenwood, Zexue He, Rishi Bommasani, Sophia Kazinnik, Andreas Haupt, Samuele Marro, Erik Brynjolfsson, Alex Pentland, Jiaxin Pei
arXiv:2607. 29516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents are generating code at volumes that exceed the capacity of traditional peer review.
By Chandra Maddila, Mashrur Rashik, Euna Mehnaz Khan, Smriti Jha, James Saindon, Nachi Nagappan, Peter C. Rigby
arXiv:2607. 13718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI agents gain prevalance, users are increasingly exposed to the risks such systems entail.
By Alexandra E. Michael, Franziska Roesner
arXiv:2511. 13480v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This study focuses on understanding the complex dynamics between humans and AI systems by analyzing user reviews.
By Parisa Arbab, Xiaowen Fang
arXiv:2606. 10173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI systems move into operating systems, privacy no longer turns only on whether a model runs locally.
By Jonghyun Chung, Sanket Badhe