6 papers
Creating Group Rules with AI: Human-AI Collaboration in WhatsApp Moderation
Gauri Nayak, Farhana Shahid, Kiran Garimella +1
WhatsApp is one of the most widely used messaging platforms globally, with billions of users sharing information in private groups. Yet, it offers little infrastructure to support…
From Retrieval to Synthesis: Repair Literacy and the Domestication of Generative AI
Tawfiq Ammari, Meilun Chen, S M Mehedi Zaman +1
How do students develop AI literacy through everyday practice rather than formal instruction? While normative AI literacy frameworks proliferate, empirical understanding of how stu…
Inferential Privacy Leakage in Anonymized Conversational AI Logs
S M Mehedi Zaman, Kiran Garimella
Hundreds of millions of users now hold detailed, multi-turn conversations with ChatGPT and similar LLM assistants. We measure two privacy-relevant features of these conversations o…
How Students (Really) Use ChatGPT: Uncovering Experiences Among Undergraduate Students
Tawfiq Ammari, Meilun Chen, S M Mehedi Zaman +1
We examine how undergraduate students integrate ChatGPT into everyday self-directed learning, analyzing 10,536 naturalistic messages donated by 36 students over a year. A sequentia…
Toxicity Begets Toxicity: Unraveling Conversational Chains in Political Podcasts
Naquee Rizwan, Nayandeep Deb, Sarthak Roy +3
Tackling toxic behavior in digital communication continues to be a pressing concern for both academics and industry professionals. While significant research has explored toxicity…
Global Patterns of Viral Content on WhatsApp
Kiran Garimella, Princessa Cintaqia, Juan Jose Rojas Constain +2
This paper explores the nature and spread of viral WhatsApp content among everyday users in three diverse countries: India, Indonesia, and Colombia. By analyzing hundreds of viral…