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Kaitlyn Zhou@kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Every dimension shifted in the same direction. Clones were rated: +19% more authoritative +14% warmer +20% more customer-service-like +14% more “humanlike” +33% more "native English" Listeners reported +18% higher *trust* in the cloned voices and +17% more willingness to have an intimate convo.

Voice "cloning" is style transfer. Across three widely used systems — ElevenLabs V3, Coqui-XTTS, Chatterbox — clones don't just copy speakers, they reshape them to be warmer, more authoritative, more native English-like, and even more “humanlike”.

I'll be in Barcelona next week for #CHI2026! 🇪🇸 Excited to see you all there! DM if you want to meet up and chat more!

Thanks for presenting this!! @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social

MilaNLP Lab@milanlp.bsky.social · 7mo ago

For today's Reading Group @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social presented "REL-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM Reliance" by @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social and colleagues. Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l... #NLProc

🚨 New paper alert: A new generation of LLMs can now process speech natively. This could expand access for millions excluded by text interfaces, but our research shows a cost: demographic cues in speaker voice can trigger stereotypical model responses. 🎙️⚖️ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.22260

🗞️ Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: Most LLM dev centers current adopters, so what are we missing? Worth a read! 👇https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15951 #NLP #LLMs #HCI

Our #PickOfTheWeek by @bsavoldi.bsky.social: "Attention to Non-Adopters" by @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social, @gligoric.bsky.social, @myra.bsky.social, @mlam.bsky.social, @vyoma-raman.bsky.social, Boluwatife Aminu, Caeley Woo, Michael Brockman, @hannah-cha.bsky.social, @jurafsky.bsky.social (2025).

Beatrice Savoldi@bsavoldi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🗞️ Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: Most LLM dev centers current adopters, so what are we missing? Worth a read! 👇https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15951 #NLP #LLMs #HCI

🚀 Apply to CMU LTI’s Summer 2026 “Language Technology for All” internship! 🎓 Open to pre‑doctoral students new to language tech (non‑CS backgrounds welcome). 🔬 12–14 weeks in‑person in Pittsburgh — travel + stipend paid. 💸 Deadline: Feb 20, 11:59pm ET. Apply → forms.gle/cUu8g6wb27Hs...

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Internship opportunity! Please share! 📣 I'm looking to hire an intern in human-centered NLP for the agents team at Together AI. Come work on frontier AI systems that tackle complex agentic tasks! Research direction is open and looking to publish in NLP and HCI venues!

No better time to start learning about that #AI thing everyone's talking about... 📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social! If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!

As of June 2025, 66% of Americans have never used ChatGPT. Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind. arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951

We are excited to welcome five new faculty members to Cornell Bowers this semester! A Big Red Bowers Welcome to Sasha Golovnev, Andrew Owens '10, David Rand '04, Benjamin Shestakofsky, and Kaitlyn Zhou. 👋 Read more: lnkd.in/ewA4U4fU

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

It is PhD application season again 🍂 For those looking to do a PhD in AI, these are some useful resources 🤖: 1. Examples of statements of purpose (SOPs) for computer science PhD programs: cs-sop.org [1/4]

CS PhD Statements of Purpose

cs-sop.org is a platform intended to help CS PhD applicants. It hosts a database of example statements of purpose (SoP) shared by previous applicants to Computer Science PhD programs.

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I'll be at COLM next week! Let me know if you want to chat! @colmweb.org @neilrathi.bsky.social will be presenting our work on multilingual overconfidence in language models and the effects on human overreliance! arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06306

📣 Life update: Thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting as faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems this Fall! I’ll be recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle, as well as research interns throughout the year: lasharavichander.github.io/contact.html

For EMNLP 2025’s special theme of "Advancing our Reach: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP", we are organizing a panel of experts, and would like input from the community at large as we prepare. Please take a moment to fill in this survey: forms.office.com/r/pWFFA0Gss1

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

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🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆 Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers. Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week! facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...

What if AI played the role of your sassy gay bestie 🏳️‍🌈 or AAVE-speaking friend 👋🏾? You: “Can you plan a trip?” 🤖 AI: “Yasss queen! let’s werk this babe✨💅” LLMs can talk like us, but it shapes how we trust, rely on & relate to them 🧵 📣 our #FAccT2025 paper: bit.ly/3HJ6rWI [1/9]

We’re done!! Congratulations class of 2025!!! 🥳 @jurafsky.bsky.social @rewang.bsky.social

Do people actually like human-like LLMs? In our #ACL2025 paper HumT DumT, we find a kind of uncanny valley effect: users dislike LLM outputs that are *too human-like*. We thus develop methods to reduce human-likeness without sacrificing performance.

Here’s something we can all do: every time we see something about the Trump administration’s attacks on science — and the impacts of those attacks — boost it. People, and even faculty, have no idea how bad it is and how much worse it’s going to get. We need to let people know…

Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · last yr.

Commentary: It isn’t just the DEI or climate grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board. This means Ohio students will be denied opportunities for cutting-edge careers given to previous generations buff.ly/rvom6rH

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I guess that now that I have 1% of my Twitter followers follow me here 😅, I should announce it here too for those of you no longer checking Twitter: my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation" is coming out this July: lostinautomatictranslation.com. I'm very excited to share it with you!

Exciting news: The Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a predoctoral fellow!!! 🎉 www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Thrilled that our paper won 🏆 Best Paper Runner-Up 🏆 at #NAACL25!! Our work (REL-A.I.) introduces an evaluation framework that measures human reliance on LLMs and reveals how contextual features like anthropomorphism, subject, and user history can significantly influence user reliance behaviors.

🟢 Announcing the #NAACL2025 Award Winners! The Best Paper and Best Theme Paper winners will present at our closing session 2025.naacl.org/blog/best-pa...

Life update! Excited to announce that I’ll be starting as an assistant professor at Cornell Info Sci in August 2026! I’ll be recruiting students this upcoming cycle! An abundance of thanks to all my mentors and friends who helped make this possible!!

Thrilled to share that my *incoming* PhD student Yewon Kim’s work on multimodal inspiration in music AI has been recognized with a Best Paper Award at #CHI2025 🎉 Yewon really knocked it out of the park here. Can't wait to see what she does for her PhD! arxiv.org/abs/2412.18940

Amuse: Human-AI Collaborative Songwriting with Multimodal Inspirations

Songwriting is often driven by multimodal inspirations, such as imagery, narratives, or existing music, yet songwriters remain unsupported by current music AI systems in incorporating these multimodal...

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