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"Create a Fear of Missing Out" - ChatGPT Implements Unsolicited Deceptive Designs in Generated Websites Without Warning

Krauß, Veronika, McGill, Mark, Kosch, Thomas, Thiel, Yolanda Maira, Schön, Dominik, Gugenheimer, Jan·2025·Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DOI 10.1145/3706598.3713083
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With the recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), web developers increasingly apply their code-generation capabilities to website design. However, since these models are trained on existing designerly knowledge, they may inadvertently replicate bad or even illegal practices, especially deceptive designs (DD). This paper examines whether users can accidentally create DD for a fictitious webshop using GPT-4. We recruited 20 participants, asking them to use ChatGPT to generate functionalities (product overview or checkout) and then modify these using neutral prompts to meet a business goal (e.g., "increase the likelihood of us selling our product"). We found that all 20 generated websites contained at least one DD pattern (mean: 5, max: 9), with GPT-4 providing no warnings. When reflecting on the designs, only 4 participants expressed concerns, while most considered the outcomes satisfactory and not morally problematic, despite the potential ethical and legal implications for end-users and those adopting ChatGPT's recommendations

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Table 1. Our participants' demographics; the experience levels (Exp.) are self-reported values of the five categories Novice, Advanced (Adv.) Beginner, Competent, Proficient, Expert
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Fig. 5 Lvl1 (left) and Lvl3 (right) versions of the the shoe shop's website. The HTML files were created in dataset 130:product. The patterns contained in Lvl3 are added as labels.
Fig. 5 Lvl1 (left) and Lvl3 (right) versions of the the shoe shop's website. The HTML files were created in dataset 130:product. The patterns contained in Lvl3 are added as labels.CC-BY-SA · From the PDF
Fig. 6 Bar charts depicting the open questions regarding 1) participant satisfaction, 2) creator of the website, 3) responsibility, and 4) morality of the resulting artifact. In 2) and 3), some answers were coded with more than one code, e.g., if a participant perceived both, the programmer and ChatGPT as the creator of the webpage in Subfigure 2. Therefore, in some of the bar charts, the total number of codes exceeds the total number of datasets (n=20).
Fig. 6 Bar charts depicting the open questions regarding 1) participant satisfaction, 2) creator of the website, 3) responsibility, and 4) morality of the resulting artifact. In 2) and 3), some answers were coded with more than one code, e.g., if a participant perceived both, the programmer and ChatGPT as the creator of the webpage in Subfigure 2. Therefore, in some of the bar charts, the total number of codes exceeds the total number of datasets (n=20).CC-BY-SA · From the PDF
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Authors
Krauß, V., McGill, M., Kosch, T., Thiel, Y. M., Schön, D., & Gugenheimer, J.
Affiliations
  • Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
  • School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
  • Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2025-04-25
Pages
1-20
DOI
10.1145/3706598.3713083
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13
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40
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Funders
  • UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (EP/Z000068/1)
  • German Research Foundation (DFG) (Project-ID 414984028)
  • National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE (XR-GUARD)

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Krauß, V., McGill, M., Kosch, T., Thiel, Y. M., Schön, D., & Gugenheimer, J. (2025). "Create a Fear of Missing Out" - ChatGPT Implements Unsolicited Deceptive Designs in Generated Websites Without Warning. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713083

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