38 citations · 42 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for
11 papers
How People Use ChatGPT: Conversation-Level Evidence from India, Nigeria, Brazil, and Pakistan
Shreyasi Roy Chowdhury, Kiran Garimella
Public understanding of how people use LLM-based conversational AI assistants comes primarily from aggregate platform reports by OpenAI and Anthropic, which apply fixed taxonomies…
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…
Demographic Divides in Political Content Exposure on Facebook
S M Mehedi Zaman, Joao Couto, Kiran Garimella
Despite Facebook's central role in American civic life, a clear, evidence-based understanding of users' long-term information environments has remained elusive, hindering assessmen…
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…
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…
Examining (Political) Content Consumption on Facebook Through Data Donation
Joao Couto, Kiran Garimella
This paper investigates the usage patterns of Facebook among different demographics in the United States, focusing on the consumption of political information and its variability a…
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…
On the rise of fear speech in online social media
Punyajoy Saha, Kiran Garimella, Narla Komal Kalyan +4
Recently, social media platforms are heavily moderated to prevent the spread of online hate speech, which is usually fertile in toxic words and is directed toward an individual or…
"Short is the Road that Leads from Fear to Hate": Fear Speech in Indian WhatsApp Groups
Punyajoy Saha, Binny Mathew, Kiran Garimella +1
WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world. Due to its popularity, WhatsApp has become a powerful and cheap tool for political campaigning being widely used during the…