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Do LLMs Find Human Answers To Fact-Driven Questions Perplexing? A Case Study on Reddit
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be proficient in correctly answering questions in the context of online discourse. However, the study of using LLMs to model human-like answers to fact-driven social media questions is still under-explored. In this work, we investigate how LLMs model the wide variety of human answers to fact-driven questions posed on several topic-specific Reddit communities, or subreddits. We collect and release a dataset of 409 fact-driven questions and 7,534 diverse, human-rated answers from 15 r/Ask{Topic} communities across 3 categories: profession, social identity, and geographic location. We find that LLMs are considerably better at modeling highly-rated human answers to such questions, as opposed to poorly-rated human answers. We present several directions for future research based on our initial findings.<br />Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures
- Subjects :
- Computer Science - Computation and Language
Computer Science - Machine Learning
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2404.01147
- Document Type :
- Working Paper