beyond-third-person-audits-situated-interaction-auditing-for-user-centered-llm-bias-research-c382796f·1 events·first seen Aliases: Beyond Third-Person Audits: Situated Interaction Auditing for User-Centered LLM Bias Research
Researchers propose Situated Interaction Auditing (SIA), a new framework for studying LLM bias from the perspective of the user rather than third-party demographic representation. The core insight is that bias can manifest in how a model treats its interlocutor — varying response quality, content, and tone based on implicit sociodemographic signals, writing style, or stated identity — rather than only in how it describes external groups. The paper demonstrates SIA through a case study intersecting gender and socioeconomic status signals across multiple task domains and outlines a research agenda for the approach.