Politicians vs ChatGPT. A study of presuppositions in French and Italian political communication
This work addresses the problem of evaluating implicit communication in political discourse and AI for researchers in linguistics and AI, but it is incremental as it builds on existing literature on presuppositions and LLMs.
The study compared texts from French and Italian politicians on polarizing issues like immigration and the EU with those generated by ChatGPT 3.5, focusing on presuppositions as a feature of manipulation, and found that it contributes to understanding LLMs' pragmatic competences.
This paper aims to provide a comparison between texts produced by French and Italian politicians on polarizing issues, such as immigration and the European Union, and their chatbot counterparts created with ChatGPT 3.5. In this study, we focus on implicit communication, in particular on presuppositions and their functions in discourse, which have been considered in the literature as a potential linguistic feature of manipulation. This study also aims to contribute to the emerging literature on the pragmatic competences of Large Language Models.