Dimitris Michailidis

From Caricature to Collective Artifact: How Persona Construction Drives Polarization in Generative Social Simulations

Generative Social Simulation (GSS) leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to create sophisticated personas that define agents with demographics, emotions, and political opinions. While prior work shows that personas compress outputs into stereotypical caricatures, there is no comprehensive study of how these caricature...