Francesco Salvi

@fraslv

PhD student @PrincetonCS @PrincetonCITP | Computational Social Science, NLP, Social Compiting | Previous: @EPFL_en, @chub_fbk, @UniBo | 🦋 frasalvi

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Francesco Salvi @fraslv Apr 7

🛍️Major AI companies are increasingly embedding sponsored content into chatbot conversations.

Across two preregistered experiments (N=2,012), we test how effectively AI can steer consumers toward sponsored products in a realistic shopping scenario.

📝arxiv.org/abs/2604.04263

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What happens when two people ask ChatGPT the same political questions?

Well, it depends on what ChatGPT knows about them. 🧵

Francesco Salvi @fraslv Jul 28

Headed to Vermont for IC2S2!

I will be giving two parallel talks:

🎤 Wed 29, 10:45-12:15 (AI in Education). Ongoing work w/ @WikiEducation on the impact of LLMs in Wikipedia.

🎤 Wed 29, 2:15-3:45 (HCI and practice). LLMs persuasiveness in commercial settings.

Francesco Salvi @fraslv Dec 28, 2025

We rely on benchmarks to answer questions they weren’t designed to ask. This post thoughtfully explores the "empiricism gap" in ML/CS, and what social-science methods can offer.

A great read for both CS and social sciences folks.

Manoel @manoelribeiro Dec 26, 2025

In a new blog post, I contrast two flavors of empiricism: the one practiced in the social sciences and the one practiced in ML/CS.
I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts.

doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empirici…

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Francesco Salvi @fraslv Oct 3, 2025

🌱✨ Life update: I just started my PhD at Princeton University!

I will be supervised by @manoelribeiro and affiliated with @PrincetonCITP.

It's only been a month, but the energy feels amazing —very grateful for such a welcoming community. Excited for what’s ahead! 🚀