@inproceedings{leto-etal-2025-dehumanization,
    title = "Dehumanization of {LGBTQ}+ Groups in Sexual Interactions with {C}hat{GPT}",
    author = "Leto, Alexandria  and
      V{\'a}squez, Juan  and
      Palmer, Alexis  and
      Pacheco, Maria Leonor",
    editor = "Pranav, A  and
      Valentine, Alissa  and
      Bhatt, Shaily  and
      Long, Yanan  and
      Subramonian, Arjun  and
      Bertsch, Amanda  and
      Lauscher, Anne  and
      Gupta, Ankush",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Queer in AI Workshop",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Hybrid format (in-person and virtual)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.queerinai-main.3/",
    pages = "17--25",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-244-2",
    abstract = "Given the widespread use of LLM-powered conversational agents such as ChatGPT, analyzing the ways people interact with them could provide valuable insights into human behavior. Prior work has shown that these agents are sometimes used in sexual contexts, such as to obtain advice, to role-play as sexual companions, or to generate erotica. While LGBTQ+ acceptance has increased in recent years, dehumanizing practices against minorities continue to prevail. In this paper, we hone in on this and perform an analysis of dehumanizing tendencies toward LGBTQ+ individuals by human users in their sexual interactions with ChatGPT. Through a series of experiments that model various concept vectors associated with distinct shades of dehumanization, we find evidence of the reproduction of harmful stereotypes. However, many user prompts lack indications of dehumanization, suggesting that the use of these agents is a complex and nuanced issue which warrants further investigation."
}