MentalManip: A Dataset For Fine-grained Analysis of Mental Manipulation in Conversations (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on mental manipulation focus on context-free content and face challenges in identifying implicit toxicity. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset that analyzes mental manipulation and its components . they propose to use 4,000 fictional dialogues to identify the techniques utilized for manipulation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset enables a comprehensive analysis of mental manipulation . it shows that leading-edge models inadequately identify and categorize manipulative content . |
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