New paper w/ UK AISI: Millions of people now use AI to help them write and communicate. In three experiments (14k participants, 3m+ human ratings) we show that AI writing assistance systematically distorts writer personas – their perceived beliefs, personality, and identity. 🧵

Hi all! We are curating SLAyiNG, a dataset of queer slang. To ensure the quality of the final data, we are asking the community for help with annotation. Sign up at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... If you have further inquiries, feel free to contact either me or @leahirlimann.bsky.social directly 🌈

Going to Rabat for #EACL2026? So are we! 🇲🇦 We are bringing a packed schedule of papers, talks, and workshops. Check out our lineup below and come say hi! 👋 🧵 #NLProc @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

📢 New paper accepted at @eaclmeeting.bsky.social 2026: Persistent Personas? Role-Playing, Instruction Following, and Safety in Extended Interactions with @mhedderich.bsky.social @amodarressi.bsky.social Hinrich Schuetze & Benjamin Roth. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2512.12775

📢 New paper accepted at @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social 2025: Principled Personas: Defining and Measuring the Intended Effects of Persona Prompting on Task Performance with @paul-rottger.bsky.social, @dirkhovy.bsky.social & Benjamin Roth. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.19764

(1/6) 📢 New in PLOS ONE! Helpful assistant or fruitful facilitator? We study how personas affect LLM behavior across tasks, biases, attitudes & refusals. 🧪 162 personas 🎯 Compared to 30 “helpful assistant” paraphrases to control for prompt sensitivity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #Prompting #Personas