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Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 4h

In 2023, Change.org integrated an AI-assisted writing tool into their platform. We found that access to the tool changed platform trends in petition text, but that outcomes (signatures and comments) did not improve... Excited that this paper is out, check it out! 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Introducing AI to an online petition platform changed outputs but not outcomes - Nature Human Behaviour

Corpus et al. examine how the introduction of an AI writing tool impacted Change.org petitions, finding that it increased petition homogeneity but did not improve petition outcomes.

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I'm in Barcelona for #CHI26, presenting my paper "Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems for Social Media" Friday in the 9am "Community Governance and Moderation" session. @chi.acm.org dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems for Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

"Community Notes" are reshaping how millions encounter information on social media--but what makes them work (or not)? We term these "Crowdsourced Context Systems" (CCS) and introduce a framework for designing and evaluating them in a new #CHI26 paper 🧵

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Screenshot of a paper entry:
Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI
Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler
(There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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:

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How to quit Spotify

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

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Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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

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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...

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

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.

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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?

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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/....

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

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

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

*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/

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

*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

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