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A Comparative Analysis of Social Network Topology in Reddit and Moltbook
Yiming Zhu, Gareth Tyson, Pan Hui
Recent advances in agent-mediated systems have enabled a new paradigm of social network simulation, where AI agents interact with human-like autonomy. This evolution has fostered t…
The Invisible Hand: Characterizing Generative AI Adoption and its Effects on An Online Freelancing Market
Yiming Zhu, Gareth Tyson, Pan Hui
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, freelancing platforms have experienced significant growth in both worker registrations and job postings. However, the rise of generative AI (GenAI) tec…
Understanding the Complexities of Responsibly Sharing NSFW Content Online
Shalini Jangra, Zaid Almahmoud, Suparna De +3
Reddit is in the minority of mainstream social platforms that permit posting content that may be considered to be at the edge of what is permissible, including so-called Not Safe F…
Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster's Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking
Wen Yang, Qiming Ye, Onur Ascigil +4
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of how diverse token-based reward mechanisms impact platform dynamics and user behaviors. For this, we gather a unique, large-scale…
Characterizing LLM-driven Social Network: The Chirper.ai Case
Yiming Zhu, Yupeng He, Ehsan-Ul Haq +2
The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has enabled a new paradigm of social network simulation, where AI agents can interact with human-like autonomy. Recent research has ex…
Unpacking the Layers: Exploring Self-Disclosure Norms, Engagement Dynamics, and Privacy Implications
Ehsan-Ul Haq, Shalini Jangra, Suparna De +2
This paper characterizes the self-disclosure behavior of Reddit users across 11 different types of self-disclosure. We find that at least half of the users share some type of discl…
Exploring the Capability of ChatGPT to Reproduce Human Labels for Social Computing Tasks (Extended Version)
Yiming Zhu, Peixian Zhang, Ehsan-Ul Haq +2
Harnessing the potential of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can help address social challenges through inclusive, ethical, and sustainable means. In this paper, we invest…
The Emergence of Threads: The Birth of a New Social Network
Peixian Zhang, Yupeng He, Ehsan-Ul Haq +2
Threads, a new microblogging platform from Meta, was launched in July 2023. In contrast to prior new platforms, Threads was borne out of an existing parent platform, Instagram, for…
APT-Pipe: A Prompt-Tuning Tool for Social Data Annotation using ChatGPT
Yiming Zhu, Zhizhuo Yin, Gareth Tyson +3
Recent research has highlighted the potential of LLM applications, like ChatGPT, for performing label annotation on social computing text. However, it is already well known that pe…
A Study of Partisan News Sharing in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Yiming Zhu, Ehsan-Ul Haq, Gareth Tyson +3
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a large volume of biased and partisan news has been spread via social media platforms. As this may lead to wider societal issues, we argue th…
Echo Chambers within the Russo-Ukrainian War: The Role of Bipartisan Users
Peixian Zhang, Ehsan-Ul Haq, Yiming Zhu +2
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has been extensively discussed on social media. One commonly observed problem in such discussions is the emergence of echo chambers, where users are…