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Eran Toch

Tel Aviv University

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Book Open access Aug 2026

Beyond Manipulation: How Users Perceive Harmful AI Chatbot Interactions

AI chatbots are increasingly deployed across all areas of life. Research on conversational dark patterns documents influence-based harms such as biased framing and behavioral steering, while AI companion research highlights relational harms including boundary violations and social discomfort. Yet it remains unclear whe...

Vanessa Budde, Eran Toch · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Pushing the (Decision) Boundaries: Dynamically Calibrating Differentially Private Noise to Explainability in Federated Learning

XCal-FL is proposed, a closed-loop, explainability-driven local training algorithm for image classification in cross-silo FL that dynamically calibrates DP noise from three complementary signals, suggesting explainability is a distinct dimension of the privacy trade-off that cannot be inferred from utility alone, with...

Michael Khavkin, Kichang Lee, Jaeho Jin et al. · 0 citations
Book Open access Aug 2026

Beyond Manipulation: How Users Perceive Harmful AI Chatbot Interactions

Manipulative interactions were associated with evaluative contexts and steering behaviors, whereas inappropriate interactions were linked to relational contexts and social discomfort, and implications for trustworthy AI design and for regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act are discussed.

Vanessa Budde, Eran Toch · 0 citations

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