Academic Research Digest
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Below you can find an up-to-date compendium of UPenn’s empirical research of the information ecosystem.
Divergence in Support for Ignoring Out-party Court Decisions
Republican support for ignoring opposing court orders has roughly doubled, with as many as 25-30% of MAGA republicans supporting non-compliance, according to the Penn/Dartmouth Polarization Research Lab
Model-Dependent Moderation: Inconsistencies in Hate Speech Detection Across LLM-based Systems
This paper finds that different LLMs result in widely divergent results when applied to hate speech detection, and determining they are more effective at preventing hate speech towards protected classes than other groups.
Exploring Political Attitudes under Selective Media Consumption with LLMs
This paper demonstrates that selective exposure to articles from left and right-leaning news outlets has a significant effect on outputs from LLMs on political topics such as immigration and crime reduction. By Josh Nguyen, Upasana Dutta, Samar Haider, Bryan Li, Neil…
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