Meryl Ye
@merylye.bsky.social
Societal Computing PhD Student @ CMU | Cornell CS alum | merylye.github.io
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🚨 New preprint 🚨
Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.
Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.
Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🚨 New preprint 🚨
Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.
Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Thread 🧵
Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.
Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Huge thanks to Aoi(naito-aoi.github.io) and Hiro(shirado.net)!
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2505.11556
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Assessing Collective Reasoning in Multi-Agent LLMs via Hidden Profile Tasks
Multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs) promise enhanced problem-solving through distributed information integration, but also risk replicating collective reasoning failures observed...
arxiv.org
May 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Huge thanks to Aoi(naito-aoi.github.io) and Hiro(shirado.net)!
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2505.11556
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All the books I ordered last week just arrived! Can't wait to pour myself a drink, relax, be too tired to read and play around on my phone all night
May 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
All the books I ordered last week just arrived! Can't wait to pour myself a drink, relax, be too tired to read and play around on my phone all night
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I would love to never see the phrase "little is known about" in a paper ever again.
(1) Most of the time the authors are far more confident about that statement than they should be.
(2) There are lots of things we know little about because no one cares. Just not knowing isn't a good motivation.
(1) Most of the time the authors are far more confident about that statement than they should be.
(2) There are lots of things we know little about because no one cares. Just not knowing isn't a good motivation.
April 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I would love to never see the phrase "little is known about" in a paper ever again.
(1) Most of the time the authors are far more confident about that statement than they should be.
(2) There are lots of things we know little about because no one cares. Just not knowing isn't a good motivation.
(1) Most of the time the authors are far more confident about that statement than they should be.
(2) There are lots of things we know little about because no one cares. Just not knowing isn't a good motivation.
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This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm.
Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵
Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
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April 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm.
Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵
Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵
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Successfully defended my thesis today! Call me Doctor now :D
Big thank you to my advisors @vhellendoorn.bsky.social and @clegoues.bsky.social! :)
Big thank you to my advisors @vhellendoorn.bsky.social and @clegoues.bsky.social! :)
April 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Successfully defended my thesis today! Call me Doctor now :D
Big thank you to my advisors @vhellendoorn.bsky.social and @clegoues.bsky.social! :)
Big thank you to my advisors @vhellendoorn.bsky.social and @clegoues.bsky.social! :)
At this point, “breaking news” should just be called “broken news”.
April 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
At this point, “breaking news” should just be called “broken news”.
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We're leaving Twitter behind and moving to Bluesky! Here, we'll keep tackling the toughest challenges at the intersection of technology, ethics, and society—without all the noise. Follow us to join thoughtful conversations, responsible innovation, and real-world impact. #SolveBig #ResponsibleTech
March 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We're leaving Twitter behind and moving to Bluesky! Here, we'll keep tackling the toughest challenges at the intersection of technology, ethics, and society—without all the noise. Follow us to join thoughtful conversations, responsible innovation, and real-world impact. #SolveBig #ResponsibleTech
Found an old notepad from elementary school. Not exactly sure what I was up to…but it seems like I’ve had a longstanding interest in social media users?
Hopefully now I know better than to use USA Today as a reference.
Hopefully now I know better than to use USA Today as a reference.
March 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Found an old notepad from elementary school. Not exactly sure what I was up to…but it seems like I’ve had a longstanding interest in social media users?
Hopefully now I know better than to use USA Today as a reference.
Hopefully now I know better than to use USA Today as a reference.
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Huge thanks to my advisors Hiro(www.shirado.net) and Sauvik @sauvik.me!
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2501.17420
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Actions Speak Louder than Words: Agent Decisions Reveal Implicit Biases in Language Models
While advances in fairness and alignment have helped mitigate overt biases exhibited by large language models (LLMs) when explicitly prompted, we hypothesize that these models may still exhibit implic...
arxiv.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Huge thanks to my advisors Hiro(www.shirado.net) and Sauvik @sauvik.me!
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2501.17420
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🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This fall, I was TA for Network Analysis, taught by @vasilescu.bsky.social and @patpark.bsky.social .
To make it fun(ner), we played a song for each lecture. Check out our website and playlist! I would love suggestions of other network-related songs for next year.
open.spotify.com/playlist/468...
To make it fun(ner), we played a song for each lecture. Check out our website and playlist! I would love suggestions of other network-related songs for next year.
open.spotify.com/playlist/468...
Network Analysis
The Hidden Structures behind the Webs We Weave17-338 / 17-668 Fall 2024
bvasiles.github.io
December 16, 2024 at 1:22 PM
This fall, I was TA for Network Analysis, taught by @vasilescu.bsky.social and @patpark.bsky.social .
To make it fun(ner), we played a song for each lecture. Check out our website and playlist! I would love suggestions of other network-related songs for next year.
open.spotify.com/playlist/468...
To make it fun(ner), we played a song for each lecture. Check out our website and playlist! I would love suggestions of other network-related songs for next year.
open.spotify.com/playlist/468...
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I am making a Societal Computing starter pack for folks that (broadly) look at the impact of computer science on society. So far, mostly people affiliated with the eponymous program in the school of computer science at CMU, but pls respond to this thread if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/2avpExM
go.bsky.app/2avpExM
December 8, 2024 at 7:19 PM
I am making a Societal Computing starter pack for folks that (broadly) look at the impact of computer science on society. So far, mostly people affiliated with the eponymous program in the school of computer science at CMU, but pls respond to this thread if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/2avpExM
go.bsky.app/2avpExM