15 papers
A Marketplace for AI-Generated Adult Content and Deepfakes
Shalmoli Ghosh, Matthew R. DeVerna, Filippo Menczer
Generative AI systems increasingly enable the production of highly realistic synthetic media. Civitai, a popular community-driven platform for AI-generated content, operates a mone…
Adversarial Creation and Detection of AI-Generated Social Bot Content
Mykola Trokhymovych, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Alessandro Flammini +2
The convergence of large language models and social bots allows malicious actors to manipulate the information ecosystem by generating human-like content at scale. Existing models…
How the cascade inference problem distorts information diffusion
Matthew R. DeVerna, Francesco Pierri, Rachith Aiyappa +3
To analyze the flow of information online, experts often rely on platform-provided data from social media companies, which typically attribute all resharing actions to an original…
The Invisible Risks of AI-Generated Health Information
Matthew R. DeVerna, Harry Yaojun Yan, Kai-Cheng Yang +1
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems now summarize health-related search results, answer medical questions, and offer guidance people once sought from clinicians. These…
PluRule: A Benchmark for Moderating Pluralistic Communities on Social Media
Zoher Kachwala, Bao Tran Truong, Rasika Muralidharan +3
Social media are shifting towards pluralism -- community-governed platforms where groups define their own norms. What violates rules in one community may be perfectly acceptable in…
Emergence of Stereotypes and Affective Polarization from Belief Network Dynamics
Ozgur Can Seckin, Rachith Aiyappa, Madalina Vlasceanu +3
Our belief systems are shaped by social processes, such as observations and influence, and by cognitive processes, such as the drive for internal coherence. These processes steer h…