Shiny Stories, Hidden Struggles: Investigating the Representation of Disability Through the Lens of LLMs
Marco Bombieri, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Marco Rospocher · 2026 · ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
This paper investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) represent disability by comparing AI-generated social media posts with self-descriptions from real people with disabilities on Reddit. The study addresses a critical gap in bias research: while prior work has focused on…
AI bias · large language models · disability representation · inspiration porn · toxic positivity