When the Interviewer Is a Bot: Behavior, Breakdowns, and Trust in MLLM-Led Interviews
Semi-structured interviews are a cornerstone of qualitative research but remain labor-intensive. We report an empirical study of what actually happens when the interviewer is an off-the-shelf real-time multimodal LLM (MLLM). We built InterviewBot, a voice-based interviewing system that wraps a real-time MLLM with a researcher-authored outline, and deployed it not as a novel architecture but as a research instrument for observing default MLLM interviewing behavior. In a practice study (N=15), par
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Published: 11 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.HC
Category: Research
Topics: Jobs & economy
Retrieved: 12 August 2026
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