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How to quit Spotify This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Introducing AI to an Online Petition Platform Changed Outputs but not Outcomes The rapid integration of AI writing tools into online platforms raises critical questions about their impact on content production and outcomes. We leverage a unique natural experiment on Change$.$org...

Excited to share a new working paper!

What happened when Change.org integrated an AI writing tool into their platform? We provide causal evidence that petition text changed significantly while outcomes did not improve. 1/

arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949

'There Has To Be a Lot That We're Missing': Moderating AI-Generated Content on Reddit | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Generative AI is altering how we work, learn, communicate, and participate in online communities. How might online communities be changed by generative AI? To start addressing this question, we focuse...

Check out the article! And for a deeper dive, the paper(s) I've written with @informor.bsky.social on the topic:
- Interview study w/ Reddit mods: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- Platform-wide analysis of subreddit rules about AI: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I spoke with @kattenbarge.bsky.social for this @wired.com piece about my research into reddit moderators' experiences moderating AI-generated content. Moderators are working hard to keep Reddit "one of the most human spaces left on the internet," but it's a trying and often thankless task.

'There Has To Be a Lot That We're Missing': Moderating AI-Generated Content on Reddit | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Generative AI is altering how we work, learn, communicate, and participate in online communities. How might online communities be changed by generative AI? To start addressing this question, we focused on online community moderators' experiences with AI-...

🇳🇴 I'm in Bergen for #CSCW25 🇳🇴
This Wednesday, in the "Content Moderation" session, I'll present my paper about how Reddit moderators are grappling with AI-Generated Content. I'm honored that it received a Best Paper Honorable Mention 🤓 If you're here too, let's connect!
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems Social media platforms are increasingly developing features that display crowdsourced context alongside posts, modeled after X's Community Notes. These systems, which we term Crowdsourced Context Syst...

We hope this framework will guide an HCI research agenda on this impactful new class of social media system. Check out the full paper here: www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.15434
@informor.bsky.social @karenlevy.bsky.social @tungdnguyen.bsky.social

We develop a framework composed of three parts:

1. A theoretical model to conceptualize and define CCS.
2. A design space encompassing six key aspects of CCS.
3. Key normative implications of different CCS design and implementation choices.

New preprint! Crowdsourced Context Systems (CCS) like X's and Meta's Community Notes are popping up on various social media platforms. How can we better understand, critique, and design such systems?

"There Has To Be a Lot That We're Missing": Moderating AI-Generated Content on Reddit Generative AI is altering how we work, learn, communicate, and participate in online communities. How might online communities be changed by generative AI? To start addressing this question, we focuse...

2. "There Has To Be a Lot That We're Missing": Moderating AI-Generated Content on Reddit (CSCW25): an interview study with subreddit moderators about their experiences moderating AI-generated content
arxiv.org/abs/2311.12702

AI Rules? Characterizing Reddit Community Policies Towards AI-Generated Content | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

I'll be discussing two recent Reddit studies:
1. AI Rules? Characterizing Reddit Community Policies Towards AI-Generated Content (CHI24): a large-scale data collection and analysis of subreddit community rules governing the use of AI (check out the dataset!):
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

I'm at Seattle 4S! I'll be part of the "Risks of 'Social Model Collapse' in the Face of Scientific and Technological Advances" panel Friday morning, discussing online community governance of AI-generated content. Would love to meet others studying AI's impact on the info ecosystem!
#STS #4S

It was a pleasure to present our (@jennahgosciak.bsky.social @tungdnguyen.bsky.social @informor.bsky.social) large-scale study of Reddit community's AI rules in the AI Ethics and Concerns session at #CHI25! The paper is now available open access in the ACM library: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/....

An important topic of discussion in today's workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance!
chi-staig.github.io

One line of the recent CMV moderator statement stuck out to me: "Our sub is a decidedly human space that rejects undisclosed AI as a core value." It's important to support community autonomy towards AI. I'm at #CHI25 presenting work on this topic and would love to talk to others doing similar work.

"There Has To Be a Lot That We're Missing": Moderating AI-Generated Content on Reddit Generative AI has begun to alter how we work, learn, communicate, and participate in online communities. How might our online communities be changed by generative AI? To start addressing this question...

I also want to point to my recent paper (forthcoming at CSCW25) about moderating AI-generated content on Reddit. I spoke to CMV mods about their experiences with, and stances towards AI, in their communities. It's not a surprise that this use of AI is unwelcome!
arxiv.org/abs/2311.12702

Thankful for @sarahagilbert.bsky.social's thoughtful words on the ethics issues here: a must read for all researching online communities.

@informor.bsky.social @jennahgosciak.bsky.social @tungdnguyen.bsky.social

We look forward to presenting this work next month at CHI25 in Yokohama! Please spread the word about the dataset and let us know what cool things you use it for! fin/

GitHub - sTechLab/AIRules: Dataset accompanying AI Rules? Characterizing Reddit Community Policies Towards AI-Generated Content Dataset accompanying AI Rules? Characterizing Reddit Community Policies Towards AI-Generated Content - sTechLab/AIRules

We've published our data to support future research. While our study focuses on *AI* governance, this dataset of online community rules and metadata (the largest of its kind!) can be used to answer a variety of other questions about online community self-governance: github.com/sTechLab/AIR... 4/

AI Rules? Characterizing Reddit Community Policies Towards AI-Generated Content How are Reddit communities responding to AI-generated content? We explored this question through a large-scale analysis of subreddit community rules and their change over time. We collected the metada...

See our paper for further details and implications for both platform designers and communities: arxiv.org/abs/2410.11698 3/

We find that a significant number of communities have enacted rules about AIGC, and this number is growing over time. These rules often focus on AI images and are most common in larger and Art-focused subreddits. Rules often evoke, as justification, concerns about quality and authenticity. 2/

*NEW DATASET AND PAPER* (CHI2025): How are online communities responding to AI-generated content (AIGC)? We study this by collecting and analyzing the public rules of 300,000+ subreddits in 2023 and 2024. 1/

@informor.bsky.social

AI Rules? Characterizing Reddit Community Policies Towards AI-Generated Content How are Reddit communities responding to AI-generated content? We explored this question through a large-scale analysis of subreddit community rules and their change over time. We collected the metada...

We offer a novel taxonomy of AI rule types and plan to make our datasets public after peer-review. Check out the preprint (w/ co-authors @Mor, Jennah and Tung) for more details about our findings and their implications: arxiv.org/abs/2410.11698 /fin

Rules about AI most often focus on regulating the use of AI images and raise as justification concerns about quality and authenticity. /3

The number of subreddits with AI rules has nearly doubled over the last 12 months. Larger subreddits, as well as those devoted to art and celebrity topics, are the most likely to have such rules. /2

*NEW PAPER* How are online communities adapting to the presence of AI-generated content (AIGC)? To answer this question we collected the community rules for 300,000 public subreddits and identified rules governing the use of AI. /1