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title = "Dehumanization of {LGBTQ}+ Groups in Sexual Interactions with {C}hat{GPT}",
author = "Leto, Alexandria and
V{\'a}squez, Juan and
Palmer, Alexis and
Pacheco, Maria Leonor",
editor = "Pranav, A and
Valentine, Alissa and
Bhatt, Shaily and
Long, Yanan and
Subramonian, Arjun and
Bertsch, Amanda and
Lauscher, Anne and
Gupta, Ankush",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Queer in AI Workshop",
month = may,
year = "2025",
address = "Hybrid format (in-person and virtual)",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.queerinai-main.3/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.queerinai-main.3",
pages = "17--25",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-244-2",
abstract = "Given the widespread use of LLM-powered conversational agents such as ChatGPT, analyzing the ways people interact with them could provide valuable insights into human behavior. Prior work has shown that these agents are sometimes used in sexual contexts, such as to obtain advice, to role-play as sexual companions, or to generate erotica. While LGBTQ+ acceptance has increased in recent years, dehumanizing practices against minorities continue to prevail. In this paper, we hone in on this and perform an analysis of dehumanizing tendencies toward LGBTQ+ individuals by human users in their sexual interactions with ChatGPT. Through a series of experiments that model various concept vectors associated with distinct shades of dehumanization, we find evidence of the reproduction of harmful stereotypes. However, many user prompts lack indications of dehumanization, suggesting that the use of these agents is a complex and nuanced issue which warrants further investigation."
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%T Dehumanization of LGBTQ+ Groups in Sexual Interactions with ChatGPT
%A Leto, Alexandria
%A Vásquez, Juan
%A Palmer, Alexis
%A Pacheco, Maria Leonor
%Y Pranav, A.
%Y Valentine, Alissa
%Y Bhatt, Shaily
%Y Long, Yanan
%Y Subramonian, Arjun
%Y Bertsch, Amanda
%Y Lauscher, Anne
%Y Gupta, Ankush
%S Proceedings of the Queer in AI Workshop
%D 2025
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hybrid format (in-person and virtual)
%@ 979-8-89176-244-2
%F leto-etal-2025-dehumanization
%X Given the widespread use of LLM-powered conversational agents such as ChatGPT, analyzing the ways people interact with them could provide valuable insights into human behavior. Prior work has shown that these agents are sometimes used in sexual contexts, such as to obtain advice, to role-play as sexual companions, or to generate erotica. While LGBTQ+ acceptance has increased in recent years, dehumanizing practices against minorities continue to prevail. In this paper, we hone in on this and perform an analysis of dehumanizing tendencies toward LGBTQ+ individuals by human users in their sexual interactions with ChatGPT. Through a series of experiments that model various concept vectors associated with distinct shades of dehumanization, we find evidence of the reproduction of harmful stereotypes. However, many user prompts lack indications of dehumanization, suggesting that the use of these agents is a complex and nuanced issue which warrants further investigation.
%R 10.18653/v1/2025.queerinai-main.3
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.queerinai-main.3/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.queerinai-main.3
%P 17-25
Markdown (Informal)
[Dehumanization of LGBTQ+ Groups in Sexual Interactions with ChatGPT](https://aclanthology.org/2025.queerinai-main.3/) (Leto et al., QueerInAI 2025)
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