"Ronaldo's a poser!": How the Use of Generative AI Shapes Debates in Online Forums

要旨

Online debates can enhance critical thinking but may escalate into hostile attacks. As humans are increasingly reliant on Generative AI (GenAI) in writing tasks, we need to understand how people utilize GenAI in online debates. To examine the patterns of writing behavior while making arguments with GenAI, we created an online forum for soccer fans to engage in turn-based and free debates in a post format with the assistance of ChatGPT, arguing on the topic of "Messi vs Ronaldo". After 13 sessions of two-part study and semi-structured interviews with 39 participants, we conducted content and thematic analyses to integrate insights from interview transcripts, ChatGPT records, and forum posts. We found that participants prompted ChatGPT for aggressive responses, created posts with similar content and logical fallacies, and sacrificed the use of ChatGPT for better human-human communication. This work uncovers how polarized forum members work with GenAI to engage in debates online.

著者
Yuhan Zeng
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yingxuan Shi
University of Colorado Denver, Beijing, China
Xuehan Huang
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Fiona Nah
Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore
RAY LC
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713829

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713829

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Communication and Social Interaction

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