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LLM Spirals of Delusion: A Benchmarking Audit Study of AI Chatbot Interfaces

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Main Authors:	Kirgis, Peter, Hawriluk, Ben, Feng, Sherrie, Bilimer, Aslan, Paech, Sam, Tufekci, Zeynep
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language
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