“I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI | ICLR Blogposts 2025 State-of-the-art generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly prone to anthropomorphic behaviors, i.e., to generating outputs that are perceived to be human-like. While this has led to scholars incr...

This draws on work from last summer at MSR MTL, with @aolteanu.bsky.social, Su Lin Blodgett, @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social, and @lisaegede.bsky.social! Check out the full post: iclr-blogposts.github.io/2025/blog/an...

Great work from an amazing team! 🌟 Check out this thread to learn more about our work on anthropomorphic AI systems:

A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies Recent attention to anthropomorphism -- the attribution of human-like qualities to non-human objects or entities -- of language technologies like LLMs has sparked renewed discussions about potential n...

This paper comes out of a great summer at MSR FATE. Thanks to my coauthors @myra.bsky.social @lisaegede.bsky.social @aolteanu.bsky.social Su Lin Blodgett and our reviewers. Check out the whole paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 4/n