9 papers
The Activist's Guide to the Decentralized Social Universe: A Framework for Exploring How Decentralized Social Networks Can Support Collective Action
Sybille Légitime, Harini Suresh
The overreaches of mainstream social media platforms have been extensively reported and studied. For activist communities, these platforms pose risks of surveillance, censorship, o…
Which Institutional Frameworks Do Chatbots Assume? Auditing Jurisdictional Defaults in Multilingual LLMs
Zhizhi Wang, Harini Suresh
LLMs increasingly answer questions about taxes, labor protections, healthcare, education, pensions, and administrative procedures, where usefulness often depends on the applicable…
How to Stop Playing Whack-a-Mole: Mapping the Ecosystem of Technologies Facilitating AI-Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Images
Michelle L. Ding, Harini Suresh, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
The last decade has witnessed a rapid advancement of generative AI technology that significantly scaled the accessibility of AI-generated non-consensual intimate images (AIG-NCII),…
Representational Harms in LLM-Generated Narratives Against Global Majority Nationalities
Ilana Nguyen, Harini Suresh, Thema Monroe-White +1
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for text generation tasks from everyday use to high-stakes enterprise and government applications, including simulated interviews…
The Malicious Technical Ecosystem: Exposing Limitations in Technical Governance of AI-Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Images of Adults
Michelle L. Ding, Harini Suresh
In this paper, we adopt a survivor-centered approach to locate and dissect the role of sociotechnical AI governance in preventing AI-Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Images (AIG-N…
Reimagining Data Work: Participatory Annotation Workshops as Feminist Practice
Yujia Gao, Isadora Araujo Cruxên, Helena Suárez Val +3
AI systems depend on the invisible and undervalued labor of data workers, who are often treated as interchangeable units rather than collaborators with meaningful expertise. Critic…