7 papers
Economies of Open Intelligence: Tracing Power & Participation in the Model Ecosystem
Shayne Longpre, Christopher Akiki, Campbell Lund +6
Since 2019, the Hugging Face Model Hub has been the primary global platform for sharing open weight AI models. By releasing a dataset of the complete history of weekly model downlo…
Probing Pre-Trained Language Models for Cross-Cultural Differences in Values
Arnav Arora, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Isabelle Augenstein
Language embeds information about social, cultural, and political values people hold. Prior work has explored social and potentially harmful biases encoded in Pre-Trained Language…
Investigating Human Values in Online Communities
Nadav Borenstein, Arnav Arora, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee +1
Studying human values is instrumental for cross-cultural research, enabling a better understanding of preferences and behaviour of society at large and communities therein. To stud…
Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons: Five Open Questions and Knowledge Gaps
Arman Noroozian, Lorena Aldana, Marta Arisi +21
The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) relies heavily on the digital commons, a vast collection of free and open online content that is created, shared, and maintained by c…
INTIMA: A Benchmark for Human-AI Companionship Behavior
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Giada Pistilli, Yacine Jernite
AI companionship, where users develop emotional bonds with AI systems, has emerged as a significant pattern with positive but also concerning implications. We introduce Interaction…
Presumed Cultural Identity: How Names Shape LLM Responses
Siddhesh Pawar, Arnav Arora, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee +1
Names are deeply tied to human identity. They can serve as markers of individuality, cultural heritage, and personal history. However, using names as a core indicator of identity c…