The paper examines whether large language models (LLMs) exhibit conspiratorial tendencies, socio-demographic biases in this domain, and how easily they can be conditioned to adopt conspiratorial viewpoints. Using validated psychometric surveys, the authors find that LLMs partially align with conspiracy beliefs, that conditioning with demographic attributes yields uneven effects revealing latent biases, and that targeted prompts can readily shift responses toward conspiratorial stances. These findings underscore the vulnerability of LLMs to manipulation and the potential risks of deploying them in sensitive contexts.
arXiv:2608. 06151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The emergence of conspiracy theories in the wake of major events is a significant societal challenge.
arXiv:2601. 05050v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be persuasive across a variety of contexts.
arXiv:2608.29198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly encourage users to disclose personal profiles for tailored assistance, measuring their political alignment...
arXiv:2508.16013v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in politically sensitive contexts, raising concerns about their susceptibility to ideologica...
arXiv:2504.00285v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are effective at deceiving when prompted to do so. Models that demonstrate better performance on reasoning tasks are a...
arXiv:2607. 29334v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational AI developed by geopolitical rivals reaches citizens worldwide, raising concerns that it could sway public opinion or be rejected as foreign propaganda, with consequences for democratic discourse and information sovereignty.
The paper examines how large language models (LLMs) alter the expression of Dark Triad traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—when prompted to fake good or fake bad. Across seven state‑of‑the‑art models and two real‑world contexts (employment selection and forensic evaluation), most models lowered trait scores under fake‑good conditions and raised them under fake‑bad conditions, with varying consistency across traits and models. The study also finds that explicit fake‑bad instructions produce stronger distortions than contextual framing alone, underscoring the influence of motivational and situational context on personality‑related outputs.
The paper examines the relational harms of QAnon radicalization by analyzing 12,747 stories from the r/QAnonCasualties support group. Using a computational pipeline, the authors extract thematic traits, cluster them into six radicalization personas, and link these personas to specific emotional harms through LLM-assisted emotion detection and regression modeling. The study finds that certain personas predict distinct emotional outcomes, such as anger and disgust for ideologically driven radicalization, and fear and sadness for personal and cognitive collapse.
arXiv:2609.07943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There is significant uncertainty about whether abstractions like beliefs or desires usefully describe the behavior of large language models (LLMs). In...
arXiv:2609.07353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are used to simulate human participants in psychological research. We asked whether LLMs that reproduce human evaluations...
arXiv:2607. 20449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are trained predominantly on human-authored text, yet the structural and narrative conventions embedded in that text are rarely examined as a source of systematic behavioral influence, or as a governance risk in deployed systems.
arXiv:2606. 11502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models can state that "the Earth orbits the Sun" and, when role-playing Aristotle, assert the opposite.