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[Submitted on 23 Sep 2026] Title:Benchmarking Argumentative Behaviour of LLMs: A Study of Defences Against Character Attacks View a PDF of the paper titled Benchmarking Argumentative Behaviour of LLMs: A Study of Defences Against Character Attacks, by Ewelina Gajewska and 2 other authors View PDF Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as argumentative agents in persuasive dialogues, necessitating rigorous evaluation of their debating competence relative to human interlocutors. In this study, we focus on character attacks (ad hominem arguments), traditionally dismissed as fallacies, which play a pivotal role in political persuasive dialogues where ethos often rivals propositional content. Specifically, we investigate whether modern LLMs can replicate human competence to strategically use and respond to such attacks. We analyse a corpus of natural language political dialogues to identify defensive strategies human interlocutors naturally employ in ethos-centred debates and structure them into a dialogue game. Empirically, we benchmark LLM-generated dialogues against the ElecDeb60to16-fallacy corpus of U.S. presidential debates, contrasting human debaters' repertoire of defensive strategies with those of artificial agents. Results reveal a substantial difference: most LLMs rigidly prioritise logical defences, failing to exploit ethotic counterattacks as valid moves in political discourse. We argue that current safety fine-tuning constraints the strategic action space of these LLMs, making them unable to fully engage in naturalistic interactions within domains where character contestation is a normative expectation rather than a mere fallacy. Comments: Accepted to COMMA 2026 Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL) Cite as: arXiv:2609.28673 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2609.28673v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.28673 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/faia260824 DOI(s) linking to related resources Submission history From: Ewelina Gajewska [view email] [v1] Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:14:32 UTC (103 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Benchmarking Argumentative Behaviour of LLMs: A Study of Defences Against Character Attacks, by Ewelina Gajewska and 2 other authors View PDF TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)