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We are excited to invite various European researchers from different academic backgrounds to our workshop on creative practices in human-LLM interaction, taking place on August 28 in the Faculty of Sociology (building X) at Bielefeld University! We have put together a great program with exciting presentations and enough time for in-depth discussion of our work-in-progress projects and papers.

This interdisciplinary workshop addresses dynamics, challenges and opportunities of different forms of alignment and misalignment in user interactions with LLM-powered tools.

Jailbreaking practices provide an exemplary starting point, because they reveal both the sophistication of the efforts to contain the misalignment of systems by developers and the creativity of the attempts to bypass them by users — with either beneficial or malicious intentions.

Our discussion solicits contributions that analyse similar and related issues, such as:

LLM-powered chatbots in the wild, e.g. customer service chatbots or social bots that pretend to be humans
Practices of disagreement, disruption and repair in human-LLM interaction
Strategies that users and developers apply to manage conflicts between normative alignment and functionality
Conditions of acceptability and understanding in user-LLM interaction across different cases, applications and regulatory regimes
Normative assumptions and ideological framings in training or user guidelines by tech companies of different LLMs
Mechanisms and practices linking roles, role-play and (mis-)alignment
Attributions of trust and responsibility to bots, companies, and users

We welcome both empirical contributions that explore the various aspects of the interaction of users with LLMs-powered tools and theoretical contributions that analyse their communicative and social structures.

Jailbreaking and other Creative Practices in Human-LLM Interaction