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Trusting the Machine: How Anthropomorphism Impacts Epistemic Trust in Generative AI

2026-06-02

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<p>As Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) rapidly becomes more sophisticated and more widespread, understanding the impact of its perceived humanness on trust is increasingly important. Previous work has shown that anthropomorphism increases the perceived trustworthiness of an agent as an advisor, but here we asked whether it might also impact the trustworthiness of informational communications it produces...

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Literature Corpus work: 14981906-06d1-52e3-b030-11b7d8a089f0
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jfpgu_v2

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