BAIT: Can LLMs Find What Biases a Reader? A Benchmark for Cognitive Bias Triggers in News

arXiv:2610.28092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persuasive writing exploits cognitive biases, recruiting a reader's mental shortcuts to shape belief, often without the reader noticing. We call the linguistic features exploiting such mental shortcuts cognitive bias triggers. As large language models (LLMs) increasingly mediate how people encounter news, summarizing it, ranking it, and answering questions over it, a natural question is whether they can recognize the features of a text that bias a human reader. We introduce BAIT (Bias Annotation In Text), a resource for detecting cognitive bias

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