arXiv:2607. 25166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI chatbots can be ``sycophantic,'' or overly agreeable and flattering toward users.
By Meryl Ye, Robert Kraut, Steve Rathje
arXiv:2608. 11794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing role of AI-generated content and AI-enabled systems in public communication has led regulators to demand clear disclosure of content provenance and AI involvement.
By Adrian Rauchfleisch, Andreas Jungherr
arXiv:2606. 21317v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent work has raised concerns about the influence of sycophantic AI on user judgment and relationships.
By Lujain Ibrahim, Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Desmond Ong, Dan Jurafsky, Diyi Yang
arXiv:2607. 15883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are broadly capable, yet in sustained one-to-one conversation they still read as flat: competent, responsive, and somehow not quite the presence of a mind.
By Sebastian Cochinescu
arXiv:2606. 12073v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI has made fluent prose cheap to produce, breaking the old promise to readers that good writing meant real thinking.
By Jason Miklian, John E. Katsos
arXiv:2606. 31442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotion-sensing AI is rapidly becoming embedded in vehicles, home appliances, dialogue agents, and social infrastructure, giving rise to a sphere in which emotion is no longer confined to individual experience but is instead observed and computed at a societal scale, a domain we term the Affectosphere.
By Keito Inoshita