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Whose Assessment of Distress? Community Perspectives and LLM Alignment on Well-Being Posts
Judgments about psychological distress are socially situated: what counts as concerning hinges on community norms around emotional expression, vulnerability, and help-seeking. Yet large language models (LLMs) used for distress detection are typically aligned to a single, undifferentiated standard. How well do these models capture the perspectives of the communities whose language they assess? We address this question through a perspectivist annotation study in which 321 participants provided 9,587 judgments on 1,198 Reddit posts spanning six identity-based communities, yielding community-speci
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- arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · 2026-08-29T21:23:57.000Z
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