5 papers
Cultural Evolution of Perfumes since 1900
Vahid Satarifard, Fabian Baumann, Geetanjali Minsky +4
Perfumes are cultural artifacts and works of sensory art, composed from a finite, recombinable palette of notes that together evoke a distinctive scent impression. Here, we assembl…
Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare through model collapse
Fabian Baumann, Erol Akçay, Joshua B. Plotkin
Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is rapidly reshaping how knowledge and culture are produced and consumed. Yet generative models are vulnerable to model collapse: when tr…
Estimating Absolute Web Crawl Coverage From Longitudinal Set Intersections
Michael Paris, Grigori Paris, Fabian Baumann
Web archives preserve portions of the web, but quantifying their completeness remains challenging. Prior approaches have estimated the coverage of a crawl by either comparing the o…
Mutual benefits of social learning and algorithmic mediation for cumulative culture
Agnieszka Czaplicka, Fabian Baumann, Iyad Rahwan
The remarkable ecological success of humans is often attributed to our ability to develop complex cultural artefacts that enable us to cope with environmental challenges. The evolu…
Dynamics of Algorithmic Content Amplification on TikTok
Fabian Baumann, Nipun Arora, Iyad Rahwan +1
Intelligent algorithms increasingly shape the content we encounter and engage with online. TikTok's For You feed exemplifies extreme algorithm-driven curation, tailoring the stream…