This article investigates how the structural affordances of communication media alter the interactional pragmatics of political argumentation. Through a diachronic, mixed-methods analysis of the 2016 and 2024 U.S. presidential campaigns, we compare synchronous broadcast television debates with asynchronous social media...
Disagreement plays a constitutive role in argumentation, anchoring conflict and enabling reasons to be weighed. Yet, interactions with generative language models often suppress it, leading to the phenomenon of algorithmic sycophancy. While often framed as an issue of alignment or politeness, this paper argues that syco...
Ewelina Gajewska· Proceedings of the 2026 Inte...· 0 citations
It is argued that current safety fine-tuning constraints the strategic action space of these LLMs, making them unable to fully engage in naturalistic interactions within domains where character contestation is a normative expectation rather than a mere fallacy.
Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzyńska, Jarosław A. Chudziak· Frontiers in Artificial Inte...· 0 citations
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