tomorrow 6/20, i'm presenting this paper at #alt_FAccT, a NYC local meeting for @FAccTConference . ✨🎤 paper session #3 🎤✨.🗽1:30pm June 20, Fri @ MSR NYC🗽. ⬇️ our #FAccT2025 paper is abt “what if ur ChatGPT spoke queer slang and AAVE?”. 📚🔗

this was joint work with @jeffreybasoah, Daniel Chechelnitsky; collaborators @taolongg, @_doctor_kat, @chryssaZrv, @KaitlynZhou, and @blahtino; and advisor @MaartenSap at @LTIatCMU, @SCSatCMU, @hdceUW, @stanfordnlp, @GoogleResearch, @istecnico. 📚:

& here are some positive comments where users enjoyed the interaction with the sociolectal LLMs:. 😊 “It just sounds more fun to interact with” .-AAE participant. 💅 “I enjoy being called a diva!” .-Queer slang participant. for more, please see our paper :) . [8/9].

lastly, we asked users for explanations for their LLM preference:. 👎 “[AAE LLM] using AAE sounds like a joke and not natural.” . 😠 “Even people who use LGBTQ slang don’t talk like that constantly. It would be annoying to have an AI constantly use slang phrases.” . [7/9].

Q: how does each of the user perception variables impact 🔁 user reliance on LLMs? . A: ✨widely the perception variables (trust, satisfaction, social proximity, and frustration) were . 🔗🔥 related and ➕📈 positively associated with reliance 🔁. [6/9]

we also observed user perceptions for a sociolectal LLM -- trust, social proximity, satisfaction, preference etc. & we notice. 👋🏾💗AAE participants explicitly preferred the SAELM over the AAELM, whereas this wasn’t the case for 🏳️‍🌈 Queer slang participants 💙💚 . [5/9]

In our study we find: . 📈👋🏾 AAE speakers rely more on the SAE LLM over AAELM, while no reliance difference for 🏳️‍🌈⚖️ Queer slang speakers. this shows that for certain sociolects, users will rely more on a LLM in Standard English over the sociolect they use themselves🤎🩷. [4/9]

We run 2 parallel studies: . 1/ the 👋🏾 AAE speakers using AAE LLM .2/ the 🏳️‍🌈 Queer slang speakers using Queer slang LLM. participants watched videos 🎬 & l had the option to answer questions❓w/ LLM responses. the LLM was either in Standard American English or in their sociolects

Our study (n=985) looks at how . AAVE & Queer slang speakers 🗣️ perceive and rely on LLMs’ use of their sociolect (i.e., a dialect centered around a social class). our main research question:. “How do users behave and feel when engaging with a sociolectal LLM?” 🤷🏻🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏽‍♂️. [2/9].

what if AI played the role of ur sassy gay bestie 🏳️‍🌈 or AAVE-speaking friend 👋🏾 ?. you: plan a trip?.🤖 AI: “Yasss queen! let’s werk this babe✨💅”. LLMs can talk like us, but it shapes how we trust, rely on & relate to them…🧵. 📣 our #FAccT2025 paper:

RT @XuanmingZhang07: 😵‍💫 Long-context human-AI planning with LLMs struggles when users have to manually manage all the context in messy cha….

led also by amazing @Ruyuan_Wan @jiaqi_lll.

🇯🇵🌸 #CHI2025 is abt to start! . so its time! all queers! all of u on the spectrum! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @queerinAI is hosting a breakfast social on day 3 🥯🍘. 📅【apr30, 8am】.☕️【merengue hawaii cafe】. signup: *limited seats, come fast or cry later lol :) see u then!

updated my site in time #CHI2025 🇯🇵🗼 not presenting, but happy to chat about:. 🦆 FeedQUAC: ambient creativity tool with real-time audio feedback (with autodesk). 🎎 DoubleAgents: AI agents that learn human values/policies by simulating test cases & co-planning, executing them!!

RT @sitong0926: 🧩 How do we go from examples to structural insight?.🎭 Surface variation in real-world examples makes it hard to spot deeper….

hooray!! @lydiachilton 💖 whos advisor is this!!!! queen is queeninng — she deserves it!!! one of the smartest and nicest HCI researchers in the world ;).

RT @sitong0926: 🚨⚠️Recently reviewed a paper that copied my CHI '24 work, ReelFramer almost word-for-word. And the….

RT @jenny_ma_: Super excited to share that my first, first-author paper has been accepted to #CHI2025​​ ​🌸🇯🇵! Our system, DynEx bridges des….

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RT @JunyiZhuMIT: I am joining University of Michigan, EECS department as an Assistant Professor starting Jan 2025, leading the Sensing, Int….