Expectation, Backlash, Recovery, and Excitement: How Model Releases Shape Reddit Perceptions of Conversational AI Systems

arXiv:2608.24654 · cs.CL, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

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• Personalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Annotator Agreement — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Commentary — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• From tools to thieves: Measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors
• Measuring and identifying factors of individuals' trust in Large Language Models
• In Generative AI We (Dis)Trust? Computational Analysis of Trust and Distrust in Reddit Discussions
• Clio: Privacy-Preserving Insights into Real-World AI Use
• Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations

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