4 papers
The Bureaucratization of the Internet: Analyzing the Diffusion of Governance Regimes on Reddit (2011--2023)
Katherine Van Koevering, Yuanhao Liu, Jon Kleinberg
As online platforms scale, distributed communities must develop complex governance structures to maintain order. Reddit represents a unique experiment in this process: millions of…
LLM Detection as an Intervention: Downstream Impact under Strategic User Behavior
Meena Jagadeesan, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Jon Kleinberg
As LLM adoption becomes more widespread, there is a growing interest in detecting LLM-generated content, for example through LLM detection tools and through heuristics based on lan…
What's in a Niche? Migration Patterns in Online Communities
Katherine Van Koevering, Meryl Ye, Jon Kleinberg
Broad topics in online platforms represent a type of meso-scale between individual user-defined communities and the whole platform; they typically consist of related communities th…
Heads, Tails, and AI Fails: LLMs, Randomness, and Human Judgments
Katherine Van Koevering, Jon Kleinberg
Randomness is central to human cognition and to many applications in which large language models are deployed, yet probabilistic token generation does not imply that LLMs can produ…