Massimiliano Luca

Multimodal large language models predict urban safety perception but encode non-neutral demographic priors

Understanding how people perceive urban environments is essential for inclusive planning, yet conventional surveys are costly and difficult to scale. We investigate whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can assess perceived urban safety from street-view imagery while a...

The LLM Wears Prada: Analysing Gender Bias and Stereotypes through Online Shopping Data

With the wide and cross-domain adoption of Large Language Models, it becomes crucial to assess the extent to which the statistical correlations in training data hide subtle and potentially troubling biases. Gender bias in LLMs has been widely investigated from the perspectives of...