5 papers
"I Thought You Were The Uncensored Place": Norms, Rules, and Moderation in AI-Generated Sexual Content Communities
Lucy Qin, Jaron Mink, Elissa M. Redmiles
As AI-generated sexual content (AIG-SC) is increasingly produced, online communities have emerged to support creators' needs. To understand whether and how community governance att…
Examining Risks Through a Characterization of the AI Companion Application Ecosystem: A Stratified Sample from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store
Natalie Grace Brigham, Lucy Qin, Tadayoshi Kohno
While computer systems that allow users to interact through conversational natural language (i.e., chatbots) have existed for many years, various types of applications offering AI…
Caught in a Mafia Romance: How Users Explore Intimate Roleplay and Narrative Exploration with Chatbots
Julia Kieserman, Cat Mai, Sara Lignell +4
AI chatbots, built using large language models, are increasingly integrated into society and mimic the patterns of human text exchanges. While previous research has raised concerns…
"Unlimited Realm of Exploration and Experimentation": Methods and Motivations of AI-Generated Sexual Content Creators
Jaron Mink, Lucy Qin, Elissa M. Redmiles
AI-generated media is radically changing the way content is both consumed and produced on the internet, and in no place is this potentially more visible than in sexual content. AI-…
Stop the Nonconsensual Use of Nude Images in Research
Princessa Cintaqia, Arshia Arya, Elissa M Redmiles +3
In order to train, test, and evaluate nudity detection models, machine learning researchers typically rely on nude images scraped from the Internet. Our research finds that this co…