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Yutong Zhang

@yutongzhang.bsky.social

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CS master student at Stanford | previously undergrad at UIUC

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Yutong Zhang @yutongzhang.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

AI companions aren’t science fiction anymore 🤖💬❤️ Thousands are turning to AI chatbots for emotional connection – finding comfort, sharing secrets, and even falling in love. But as AI companionship grows, the line between real and artificial relationships blurs.

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Academic job market post! 👀 I’m a CS Postdoc at Stanford in the Stanford HCI group. I develop ways to improve the online information ecosystem by designing better social media feeds & improving Wikipedia. I work on AI, Social Computing, and HCI. piccardi.me 🧵

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

This paper argues that online spaces become ghost towns because it's too easy to lurk without contributing, and that asking people to regularly re-commit—or the incoming messages start getting muted—reverses the trend. arxiv.org/abs/2410.23267 It works! #cscw2024 paper by @popowski.bsky.social .

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Commit: Online Groups with Participation Commitments

In spite of efforts to increase participation, many online groups struggle to survive past the initial days, as members leave and activity atrophies. We argue that a main assumption of online group de...

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