@inproceedings{rahimzadeh-etal-2026-expectation, title = "Expectation, Backlash, Recovery, and Excitement: How Model Releases Shape {R}eddit Perceptions of Conversational {AI} Systems", author = "Rahimzadeh, Vahid and Zhauniarovich, Yury and Zannettou, Savvas", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2659/", pages = "60524--60551", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }