LLM-impersonated debate contributions are more authentic, relevant and coherent than their original: A representative study using BBC1’s Question Time

• Steffen Herbold ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: steffen.herbold@uni-passau.de

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9765-2803

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• Alexander Trautsch,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany

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• Zlata Kikteva,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany

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• Annette Hautli-Janisz

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5901-9633

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