Summary of Consolidating Strategies For Countering Hate Speech Using Persuasive Dialogues, by Sougata Saha and Rohini Srihari
Consolidating Strategies for Countering Hate Speech Using Persuasive Dialogues
by Sougata Saha, Rohini Srihari
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes a novel approach to combat hateful comments on social media by generating counter-arguments using large language models. While current methods focus on detecting and blocking offensive content, this study aims to develop long-term solutions that engage with the human perpetrators behind the hate speech. The authors experiment with controlling response generation using features based on argument structure, counter-argument speech acts, and human characteristics. They find the best combination of features that generate fluent, argumentative, and logically sound arguments for countering hate. This research has implications for developing computational models for annotating text with such features and creating silver-standard annotated versions of hate speech dialog corpora. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Hateful comments on social media are a big problem. Right now, we’re mostly using tools that just block or flag the bad content, but this doesn’t actually solve the issue because the people behind the hate speech keep coming up with new ways to spread their negativity. To make things better, researchers want to focus on finding ways to change these people’s viewpoints or at least make them stop spreading hate online. One way to do this is by generating counter-arguments to hateful comments in online conversations. This study looks at how we can use language models to create good arguments that will stand up to the hate speech and help to make a positive difference. |
