arXiv AI

Psychological Steering in LLMs: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Trustworthiness

arXiv:2510. 04484v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ability to control LLMs' emulated emotional states and personality traits is an essential step in enabling rich, human-centered interactions in socially interactive settings.

arXiv AI
Sep 21

Do Personality-Tuned LLMs Make Better Social Agents?

The paper examines whether fine‑tuning large language models (LLMs) with personality‑labelled data improves their ability to act as socially interactive agents. Two small open‑weight LLMs were fine‑tuned on a corpus of personality‑labelled social media posts and dialogues, and the resulting models were evaluated in various social interaction scenarios by independent LLM judges. The findings show that the fine‑tuned models do not outperform their baseline counterparts in role‑playing personalities, though they offer comparable text quality and increased linguistic diversity for the Qwen models; low inter‑rater agreement limits confidence in the results, suggesting future work should focus on training data quality and domain alignment.

By Tim Krabbe, Xiaodan Shi
arXiv Computation and Language
4d ago

Evaluating Alignment of Behavioral Dispositions in LLMs

arXiv:2602.11328v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As people turn to LLMs for social advice, understanding their behavior in such contexts becomes essential. In this work, we focus on behavioral dis...

By Amir Taubenfeld, Zorik Gekhman, Lior Nezry, Omri Feldman, Natalie Harris, Shashir Reddy, Romina Stella, Ariel Goldstein, Marian Croak, Yossi Matias, Amir Feder
arXiv AI
Aug 25

AI Watchdog: Agent Interfaces for Detecting and Defending Against Manipulative Dark Patterns in AI Conversations

arXiv:2608.21841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational AI increasingly shapes consequential decisions, yet users have limited support for recognizing and resisting manipulation. We present AI...

By Rachel Poonsiriwong (Pub), Chayapatr (Pub), Archiwaranguprok, Constanze Albrecht, Monchai Lertsutthiwong, Pattie Maes, Pat Pataranutaporn