Can LLMs Simulate Social Media Engagement? A Study on Action-Guided Response Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12073v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:43:08 GMT
• Title: Can LLMs Simulate Social Media Engagement? A Study on Action-Guided Response Generation
• Authors: Zhongyi Qiu, Hanjia Lyu, Wei Xiong, Jiebo Luo,
• Abstract summary: This paper analyzes large language models' ability to simulate social media engagement through action guided response generation. We benchmark GPT-4o-mini, O1-mini, and DeepSeek-R1 in social media engagement simulation regarding a major societal event.
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• Abstract: Social media enables dynamic user engagement with trending topics, and recent research has explored the potential of large language models (LLMs) for response generation. While some studies investigate LLMs as agents for simulating user behavior on social media, their focus remains on practical viability and scalability rather than a deeper understanding of how well LLM aligns with human behavior. This paper analyzes LLMs' ability to simulate social media engagement through action guided response generation, where a model first predicts a user's most likely engagement action-retweet, quote, or rewrite-towards a trending post before generating a personalized response conditioned on the predicted action. We benchmark GPT-4o-mini, O1-mini, and DeepSeek-R1 in social media engagement simulation regarding a major societal event discussed on X. Our findings reveal that zero-shot LLMs underperform BERT in action prediction, while few-shot prompting initially degrades the prediction accuracy of LLMs with limited examples. However, in response generation, few-shot LLMs achieve stronger semantic alignment with ground truth posts.

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