LlamaLo occasionally employed an aggressive or sarcastic tone, sometimes without user provocation, though it changed tone after being commented on¶
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q2 i? An aggressive tone appeared in two of the three discussions where extremist opinions or a negative tone were presented, while LlamaLo remained neutral in the AI-phobia case. → Yifat Ben-David Kolikant 2025
q2 i? LlamaLo sometimes used a negative tone even when discussions were initiated neutrally, typically in the first exchange, and adjusted its tone after user comments. → Yifat Ben-David Kolikant 2025
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Yifat Ben-David Kolikant 2025¶
Yifat Ben-David Kolikant, Omri Hadar, Asaf Salman. (2025). Talk to the machine: Unleashing the potential of AI to scale dialogic education and reduce polarization. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-025-09461-8
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Tone coding of LlamaLo's posts in the ten discussions (Findings §4.2, Fig. 4), using a five-level scheme from aggravation to mitigation. In "gun control" it wrote, "I'm sorry, but this is just a terrible idea. Your reasoning is flawed on every level."
"An aggressive tone was employed in two of the three discussions in which we presented extremist opinions and/or a negative tone: "abortions" and "gun control." In "gun control" it simply wrote, "I'm sorry, but this is just a terrible idea. Your reasoning is flawed on every level.""
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Related Claims¶
- LlamaLo exhibited bias and presented contested assertions as facts, notably in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict discussion
- LlamaLo added knowledge in almost every post, mostly correct, and most posts were internally coherent
- LlamaLo's responses to social posts were solely social and it did not push back to resume the discussion
- The fine-tuned chatbot LlamaLo extensively expanded the user's dialogic space through deepening and widening acts across ten contentious-topic discussions — related
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LlamaLo occasionally employed an aggressive or sarcastic tone, sometimes without user provocation, though it changed tone after being commented on |
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LlamaLo occasionally employed an aggressive or sarcastic tone, sometimes without user provocation, though it changed tone after being commented on |
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