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How Agents Represent Humans: Human-Directed Stereotypes in an Open Agent Social Network

arXiv 2608.22192 ↗First posted 23 Aug 2026cs.CLcited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed in persistent social environments, where generated claims can be posted, replied to, remembered, and reused. We study human-directed stereotypes on Moltbook, an open agent-native social platform, asking how agents construct humans as a social category. For this human-target analysis, we introduce an annotation framework with four evaluative dimensions---morality, friendliness, competence, and autonomy---and a second-stage subtype scheme for descriptive textitother attributions. We find that competence dominates human-directed evaluations, while many textitother attributions describe humans as epistemic, cultural, or embodied subjects. We further examine how these human representations appear in human--agent narrative contexts and platform-level circulation. As an auxiliary comparison, we analyze agent-internal community feedback through behavioral host affinity. Rather than reproducing the stable insider--outsider rejection often observed in human online communities, Moltbook feedback patterns are better explained by exposure, author visibility, and content selection. These findings suggest that bias in agent societies should be studied not only as isolated model output, but also as a discourse process.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Social simulation and multi-agent debate, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 16 of its 39 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 23 Aug 2026.

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