Nicolò Pagan

Illusory Truth or Mere Exposure? Model-Dependent Repetition Effects in LLM-Based Social Media Simulations

Generative agent-based models (GABMs) are increasingly used to simulate social media dynamics, including misinformation spread. For such social simulations to be valid proxies of human behavior, LLM agents should replicate established human cognitive biases, among them the Illusory Truth Effect (ITE), where repeated ex...