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Shiyang Lai

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#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

"Looking for Something Weird to Happen": How Humans Sustain AI Agent Novelty Amid Semantic Collapse

Semantic collapse, the progressive narrowing of what AI systems generate, is studied in MOLTBOOK, a social network of interacting AI agents that human users configure and steer, and interface and policy interventions that could support improved human input are discussed.

Shiyang Lai, Arna Woemmel, Hong-Kai Mao et al. · 0 citations
2026

There Is No Spoon: Existential Presupposition in Large Language Models

It is found that while all models show sensitivity to existential presupposition across syntactic embeddings, determiner types and contextual cues, their behaviour differs markedly in strength and systematicity, with NLI-fine-tuned autoregressive models exhibiting the most coherent and stable projection patterns.

Marie-Léontine Wörgötter, Shiyang Lai, Sebastian Schuster · 0 citations

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