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The BS-meter: Detecting Politics and Labour through ChatGPT's Language

The paper investigates the linguistic characteristics of ChatGPT-generated text, comparing it to 1,000 scientific publications and exploring its relation to concepts of ‘bullshit’ in political speech and workplace contexts. By applying hypothesis‑testing methods, the authors demonstrate that a statistical model of bullshit can link the artificial bullshit produced by ChatGPT to the political and workplace functions of bullshit observed in natural human language.

arXiv AI
Sep 18

Geopolitical Divisions Across Languages in Large Language Models

The study examines how language influences AI chatbot responses to questions about the war in Ukraine, revealing that the same AI systems (GPT, Claude, Gemini) produce varying political stances across 112 languages. By evaluating 20 statements in 112 languages, the researchers found that Russia‑leaning versus Ukraine‑leaning answers differ by language, mirroring global political attitudes such as public support for Russia, UN voting patterns, and aid levels. This pattern persists across all three models and even when specific statement pairs are removed, suggesting that information warfare could embed geopolitical biases into AI training data.

By Maxim Chupilkin
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Agentic Detection of Online Conspiracies

The paper presents an agentic framework for detecting conspiratorial content in social media by inferring the speaker’s intent rather than merely identifying explicit claims. It leverages social context and adaptive tool use, demonstrating superior performance over text-only and non-agentic models on a large Hebrew tweet dataset spanning election cycles and the COVID pandemic. The study highlights the importance of context-aware, reasoning-driven approaches for accurate conspiracy detection.

By Lior Biton, Oren Tsur
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 7

Inductive Claims Extraction at Scale

arXiv:2610.05275v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A large part of political discourse on social media is built and expressed at a level of claims: i.e. declarative, typically single-clause statemen...

By Sandrine Chausson, Bj\"orn Ross
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 12

BenCoDiC: A Large-Scale Contextual Cyberbullying Corpus for Bengali Political News Discourse FULL VERSION

The paper introduces BenCoDiC, a large Bengali cyberbullying corpus focused on political news discourse. It contains 50,250 textual instances from 100 YouTube videos, preserving caption–comment–reply relationships and organized via a nine‑dimensional star schema. A two‑tier human annotation process achieved high reliability (Fleiss' κ = 0.86, Krippendorff's α = 0.86), and transformer experiments show that adding conversational context modestly improves classification over isolated text.

By Md. Nesarul Hoque, Rudra Pratap Deb Nath, Umme Salma, Shima Chakraborty, Md. Hanif Seddiqui
arXiv AI
Sep 12

Some hypotheses on how chatbots work in problem-solution-driven conversations: Large Language Models as confirmation of the Innovation Illusion

The article examines chatbots as partners in problem‑solving conversations, arguing that basic chatbots—comprising a large language model (LLM) and a simple interface—are multifaceted but cannot match human cognitive flexibility. Drawing on Aggregation Dynamics, Cognitive Linguistics, Neuropsychology, and Psychology, the authors describe how LLMs encode artificial metaphorical problem propagations from training data, which only partially imitate human thinking. They conclude that further LLM development will not yield true thinking partners, yet chatbots are widely used, making their understanding socially and politically important.

By S. F. M. van Vlijmen, H. D. Lethe jr