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ScamPilot: Simulating Conversations with LLMs to Protect Against Online Scams
Owen Hoffman, Kangze Peng, Sajid Kamal +2
Fraud continues to proliferate online, from phishing and ransomware to impersonation scams. Yet automated prevention approaches adapt slowly and may not reliably protect users from…
Examining Solidarity Against AI-Enabled Surveillance at the Intersection of Workplace and Carceral Realities
Morgan McErlean, Cella M. Sum, Sukrit Venkatagiri +1
As panoptical, AI-driven surveillance becomes a norm, everyone is impacted. In a reality where all people fall victim to these technologies, establishing links and solidarity is es…
Promoting Online Safety by Simulating Unsafe Conversations with LLMs
Owen Hoffman, Kangze Peng, Zehua You +2
Generative AI, including large language models (LLMs) have the potential -- and already are being used -- to increase the speed, scale, and types of unsafe conversations online. LL…
OSINT Research Studios: A Flexible Crowdsourcing Framework to Scale Up Open Source Intelligence Investigations
Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Kurt Luther
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) investigations, which rely entirely on publicly available data such as social media, play an increasingly important role in solving crimes and hold…
Diverse Perspectives Can Mitigate Political Bias in Crowdsourced Content Moderation
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Naomi Mine +1
In recent years, social media companies have grappled with defining and enforcing content moderation policies surrounding political content on their platforms, due in part to conce…
CoSINT: Designing a Collaborative Capture the Flag Competition to Investigate Misinformation
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, David Hicks +2
Crowdsourced investigations shore up democratic institutions by debunking misinformation and uncovering human rights abuses. However, current crowdsourcing approaches rely on simpl…
The Challenges of Studying Misinformation on Video-Sharing Platforms During Crises and Mass-Convergence Events
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Joseph S. Schafer, Stephen Prochaska
Mis- and disinformation can spread rapidly on video-sharing platforms (VSPs). Despite the growing use of VSPs, there has not been a proportional increase in our ability to understa…
Sedition Hunters: A Quantitative Study of the Crowdsourced Investigation into the 2021 U.S. Capitol Attack
Tianjiao Yu, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Ismini Lourentzou +1
Social media platforms have enabled extremists to organize violent events, such as the 2021 U.S. Capitol Attack. Simultaneously, these platforms enable professional investigators a…
ScientoBASE: A Framework and Model for Computing Scholastic Indicators of non-local influence of Journals via Native Data Acquisition algorithms
Gouri Ginde, Snehanshu Saha, Archana Mathur +4
Defining and measuring internationality as a function of influence diffusion of scientific journals is an open problem. There exists no metric to rank journals based on the extent…