Yejin Shin

"Can LLMs Persuade Humans with Deception?": From a Deceptive Strategy Taxonomy to a Large-Scale Empirical Study

Beyond hallucinations, Large Language Models (LLMs) can craft deceptive arguments that erode users' critical thinking, posing a significant yet underexamined societal risk. To address this gap, we develop a taxonomy of eight deceptive persuasion strategies by integrating top-down rhetorical theory with a bottom-up ana…