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Matt Vetter

@darthvetter.bsky.social
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Mainly academic stuff - digital writing + Wikipedia studies

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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Today, my book The Web of Knowledge by @politybooks.bsky.social is out in the US and is accompanied by @darthvetter.bsky.social 's brilliant and thought-provoking review published in IJOC. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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Ryan McGrady @antisomniac.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
New paper out today: The Blocklog: 20 Years of Content Moderation on Wikipedia. In New Media & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The block log: 20 years of content moderation on Wikipedia - Ryan McGrady, 2025
This study examines two decades of user blocking on the English Wikipedia to understand how a volunteer-run, non-profit platform has adapted its content moderat...
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Ryan McGrady @antisomniac.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
New short paper on "The Ethics of Accidental Vlogs" in M/C Journal today, written with my @idpiumass.bsky.social colleague Harshita Snehi. Accidental vlogs as in publicly visible videos for private/small audiences (esp. common in Hindi YouTube). journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
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The Ethics of Accidental Vlogs | M/C Journal
Introduction A teenage girl wishes her friend a happy birthday in German. Two American kids test a camera and upload the results. Colleagues upload a recording of a meeting for the benefit of employ...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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Doug Mirams @dmirams.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY
As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...
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caitrionalee.bsky.social @caitrionalee.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Vetter, M.A., Jiang, J. & McDowell, Z.J. An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability. AI & Soc (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s001...
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An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY
As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...
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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
- T-minus 180 minutes and counting - Book launch for "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social 5pm at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague 🇨🇿
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Matt Vetter @darthvetter.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
New work out with Brent Lucia and Varshil Patel - "The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear" - published in Convergence This piece is a critical analysis of media responses following the public advent of ChatGPT in 2022. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear - Brent Lucia, Matthew Vetter, Varshil Patel, 2025
The advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022 catalyzed a wave of excitement and apprehension, but especially fear. This article examines the dystopian narratives that...
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Ryan McGrady @antisomniac.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
AI companies inundating Wikimedia per @engadget.bsky.social - In recent years, it's felt like @wikimediafoundation.org leadership has done an about-face on @wikicommons.bsky.social, deprioritizing it/rethinking its purpose. Wondering now if this is the context... www.engadget.com/ai/wikipedia...
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Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024 due to AI crawlers taking its content to train generative AI models. It has to find a w...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
is there any reason at all that the Democratic party should not immediately demand Hegseth's resignation?
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Marlène Delhaye @mdelhaye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"Wikenigma is a unique wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge" : wikenigma.org.uk#dokuwiki__co...
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A Catalyst for Curiosity
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Marlène Delhaye @mdelhaye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY
As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...
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Zach McDowell @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“AI fairness” is so ridiculous it’s maddening. The level of bias inherent in data only ensures you will amplify previous issues - just faster and stronger and more “efficiently” (but using 100x more power and money?) www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
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Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
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Dr. Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
In an era when gaming literacy is fundamental to understanding popular culture and technological power, 'Ready Reader One' examines the role of videogame literature in explaining not only how we play videogames, but the stories we tell with, about, and around them. lsupress.org/978080718089...
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Carlos Rivas @carlosrivas.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In uncertain times, access to reliable information is more crucial than ever. Revisit this paper by Zachary McDowell and Matthew Vetter to highlight Wikipedia’s community policies and procedures. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Zach McDowell @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
First they came for our paper products and they didn’t understand that meant toilet paper, so they didn’t protest… then they came for wine and …. Bad things happened? amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn....
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Trump threatens 200% tariff on European alcohol as trade war escalates | CNN Business
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to impose a massive tariff on European alcohol in response to the European Union’s retaliation against his steel and aluminum tariffs – a tit-for-tat esca...
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Wiki Workshop 2025 @wikiworkshop.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We received 64 submissions for #WikiWorkshop2025 🙌 A huge thank you to the @wikiresearch.bsky.social community for such an amazing engagement. Our reviewers will be diving into them in the coming weeks... stay tuned! 🔍📖
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Wiki Workshop 2025 @wikiworkshop.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Final reminder for the call for submissions for Wiki Workshop 2025: There are 3 days left to submit your extended abstracts (max 2 pages) until the submission deadline on *March 9, 2025 23:59 AoE* meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Zach McDowell @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The journal I edit, *communication +1* just released a new special issue on #MediaAesthetics that might be of some interest to my academic and humanistically minded friends. The journal is fully #openaccess so please check it out. communicationplusone.org
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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The special issue includes this (very timely) article by @darthvetter.bsky.social, Jialei Jiang & @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social : "An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability" doi.org/10.1007/s001... (2/2)
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An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY
As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com
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Trump Costs America
Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.
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Zach McDowell @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A new article I coauthored with @darthvetter.bsky.social is out today in AI and Society, "An Endangered Species: How LLMs threaten Wikipedia's sustainability" #wikipedia #wikiresearch link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY
As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...
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Wiki Workshop 2025 @wikiworkshop.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Call for Papers for the 12th edition of Wiki Workshop is out: Submit your 2-page extended abstract of your research about Wikimedia projects by March 9! All submissions are non-archival (ongoing, completed, already published works are welcome). meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Invaluable work.
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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The repeal of the Biden administration's executive order regarding AI is extremely dangerous. That an administration paid for by tech billionaires is behind the repeal should alarm everyone.
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Matt Vetter @darthvetter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
📣CFP for the 12th edition of Wiki Workshop is out📣 Submit your 2-page extended abstract of your research about #Wikimedia projects by March 9! All submissions are non-archival (ongoing, completed, already published works are welcome). meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
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Matt Vetter @darthvetter.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Happy to share a recently published article which traces technical writing students' writing process as they engage generative AI -https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10572252.2024.2445302?src=exp-la #genAI #writing #teamrhetoric
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David Buck @dbuckedu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
For those interested in how I explain my #AIResistance to my students, here is my emerging, growing, and imperfect 🌐Policy for AI Usage in ENGL-121 ⬇️ medium.com/@dbuckedu/po...
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🌐 Policy for AI Usage in ENGL-121
The artificial intelligence (AI) related to writing is most likely large language models (LLMs) that generate text; the most common one is…
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Matt Vetter @darthvetter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Wikipedia is consistently used as a major training source for LLMs but at what cost? My talk on "Wikipedia and AI: Ethical Boundaries in LLM Training" happeningNovember 25 at 10am ET. Online, public but registration is required. dcwwiki.org/Wikipedia_an... #LLM #Wikipedia #AI
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Wikipedia and AI: Ethical Boundaries in LLM Training
23rd DCW Conversation Hour
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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 19/11/2024
Have you ever wondered how @wikipedia.bsky.social really works? Or who are the people who edit and improve its articles? This video is for you. This is #AWikiMinute! A series of videos that answer frequent questions about Wikipedia and the Wikimedia universe in only a minute.
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How does Wikipedia work? | A WIKI MINUTE
YouTube video by Wikimedia Foundation
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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Since I haven't posted this over here yet, I also wanted to share the very cool set of resources we put together awhile ago. (Look for an update to this soon!) (with @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @caramartamessina.com, and @kattitude.bsky.social) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Resources on Refusing, Rejecting, and Rethinking Generative AI in Writing Studies and Higher Education
"Algorithmic Contaminations" by derekGavey is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Resources on Refusing, Rejecting, and Rethinking Generative AI in Writing Studies and Higher Education Last updated October 2...
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Matt Vetter @darthvetter.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Here's a #poet you should know and read. I've been learning about his life and just published a biographical article about John Dorsey on #Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Do...
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John Dorsey (poet) - Wikipedia
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Zach McDowell @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Super excited this paper is finally out. “Rethinking Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues| The Realienation of the Commons: Wikidata and the Ethics of “Free” Data” with Matt Vetter. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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