Analysing User Reviews to Identify User Concerns Around Permissions in AI Apps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29343v1
• Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:25:20 GMT
• Title: Analysing User Reviews to Identify User Concerns Around Permissions in AI Apps
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a machine learning model for classifying AI app reviews into permission-related categories.<n>Because user reviews are unstructured, assembling a conventional labeled training set is difficult.<n>To address this, AI-generated security and permission reviews are used to identify relevant training examples from a large corpus of human-written reviews.<n>The proposed approach classified permission reviews with an accuracy of 82%.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in everyday software, making its integration into mobile apps inevitable. However, AI mobile app developers are not always versed in security and privacy best practices, leaving users to monitor their own security and understand how apps use their data. App reviews capture real user experiences, helping others make informed decisions before downloading. This paper presents a machine learning model for classifying AI app reviews into permission-related categories. Because user reviews are unstructured, assembling a conventional labeled training set is difficult. To address this, AI-generated security and permission reviews are used to identify relevant training examples from a large corpus of human-written reviews, eliminating the need for manual annotation. The proposed approach classified permission reviews with an accuracy of 82%. Analysis shows that users organise their concerns by sentiment toward the requesting app rather than specific permission types, with implications for users, developers, and platform administrators.

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