5 papers
Making a Name for Myself: On Academic Naming Policies and their Impact
A Pranav, Vagrant Gautam, Martin Mundt +6
In academic publishing, names connect scholars to their work. When scholars change their names, including for marriage, academic recognition, or gender transition, they may lose cr…
The Algorithmic Gaze of Image Quality Assessment: An Audit and Trace Ethnography of the LAION-Aesthetics Predictor
Jordan Taylor, William Agnew, Maarten Sap +2
Visual generative AI models are trained using a one-size-fits-all measure of aesthetic appeal. However, what is deemed "aesthetic" is inextricably linked to personal taste and cult…
"I Just Don't Want My Work Being Fed Into The AI Blender": Queer Artists on Refusing and Resisting Generative AI
Jordan Taylor, Joel Mire, Alicia DeVrio +3
Art-making is a collective social activity through which queer people engage in political resistance, develop identities, archive queer memory, and form community. However, in rece…
Un-Straightening Generative AI: How Queer Artists Surface and Challenge the Normativity of Generative AI Models
Jordan Taylor, Joel Mire, Franchesca Spektor +4
Queer people are often discussed as targets of bias, harm, or discrimination in research on generative AI. However, the specific ways that queer people engage with generative AI, a…
LLMs as Workers in Human-Computational Algorithms? Replicating Crowdsourcing Pipelines with LLMs
Tongshuang Wu, Haiyi Zhu, Maya Albayrak +21
LLMs have shown promise in replicating human-like behavior in crowdsourcing tasks that were previously thought to be exclusive to human abilities. However, current efforts focus ma…