Stylistic (A)synchrony in Human-Machine Dyadic Interaction: Investigating Co-Adaptation Through the Lens of Communicative Naturalness

Abstract

Naturalness in interaction is generally perceived as a necessary foundation for ensuring spontaneous, fluent and comfortable exchange of information. Though naturalness is a given, more or less, in interpersonal (i.e., human-human) interaction, this is not always the case for human-machine interaction. While large language models like ChatGPT undergo continual improvement, they still tend to fall short of natural “humanlike” communication (Voss & Waring, 2024).