"Ronaldo's a poser!": How the Use of Generative AI Shapes Debates in Online Forums
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| author | Zeng, Yuhan Shi, Yingxuan Huang, Xuehan Nah, Fiona LC, Ray |
| author_facet | Zeng, Yuhan Shi, Yingxuan Huang, Xuehan Nah, Fiona LC, Ray |
| contents | 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. |
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| spellingShingle | "Ronaldo's a poser!": How the Use of Generative AI Shapes Debates in Online Forums Zeng, Yuhan Shi, Yingxuan Huang, Xuehan Nah, Fiona LC, Ray Human-Computer Interaction 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. |
| title | "Ronaldo's a poser!": How the Use of Generative AI Shapes Debates in Online Forums |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09693 |