LLM-impersonated debate contributions are more authentic, relevant and coherent than their original: A representative study using BBC1’s Question Time (IMAGE)

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LLM-impersonated debate contributions are more authentic, relevant and coherent than their original: A representative study using BBC1’s Question Time

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Judgments when a debate question, the name of the speaker, and both the actual and GPT-generated responses are shown side-by-side. The stacked bar chart reports the percentages of the ratings that we observed. The statistical markers reported are the p-value of a two-sided one-sample Wilcoxon signed rank tests for a difference from zero, the effect size r, the sample sizes n, mean values M and standard deviations SD.

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Herbold et al., 2026, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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