Publications (26)
HCC Is All You Need: Alignment-The Sensible Kind Anyway-Is Just Human-Centered Computing
Eric Gilbert
This article argues that AI Alignment is a type of Human-Centered Computing.
Capital and CHI: Technological Capture and How It Structures CHI Research
Eric Gilbert
This paper advances a theoretical argument about the role capital plays in structuring CHI research. We introduce the concept of technological capture to theorize the mechanism by…
Outsourcing an Information Operation: A Complete Dataset of Tenet Media's Podcasts on Rumble
Laura Kurek, Kevin Zheng, Eric Gilbert +1
Tenet Media, a U.S.-based, right-wing media company, hired six established podcasters to create content related to U.S. politics and culture during the 2024 U.S. presidential elect…
Still out there: Modeling and Identifying Russian Troll Accounts on Twitter
Jane Im, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Jackson Sargent +6
There is evidence that Russia's Internet Research Agency attempted to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election by running fake accounts on Twitter - often referred to as "Russian trol…
Information Discernment in Large Language Models
Joshua Ashkinaze, Laura Kurek, Alina Faisal +4
LLMs are increasingly used with external knowledge sources like the internet. Do they weigh information appropriately -- updating more for reliable sources (source discernment) and…
Follow Nudges without Budges: A Field Experiment on Misinformation Followers Didn't Change Follow Networks
Laura Kurek, Joshua Ashkinaze, Ceren Budak +1
Can digital ads encourage users exposed to inaccurate information sources to follow accurate ones? We conduct a large-scale field experiment (N=28,582) on X, formerly Twitter, with…