Decoding Echo Chambers: LLM-Powered Simulations Revealing Polarization in Social Networks (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on social media echo chambers have been limited to numbers and formulas. |
| Approach: | They propose an LLM-based simulation for the social opinion network to evaluate and counter polarization phenomena. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can simulate opinion dynamics and echo chambers using language-based simulations. |
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