What happens when online #counterpublics try to engage externally - meaning try to convince other publics that their ideas are valid? Our research found that they face severe harassment extended over time and space that weaponizes affordances, gender, and identity. New #CSCW2023 paper with @RoyaPak Nazita Lajevardi and Mariam Asad. https://niloufar.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/OurMuslimVoicesCSCW2023.pdf

As a member of the Responsible AI Licensing Initiative, I am helping to kick off our community meeting and working groups. Join our Slack space to see what we’re working on to help facilitate adoption of RAIL Licenses! https://www.licenses.ai/blog/2023/1/17/rail-initiative-call-for-participation

I co-authored a WIRED op-ed with @nick, in the wake of artists, writers, and programmers’ concerns about generative AI models. ChatGPT Stole Your Work. So What Are You Going to Do?
https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-generative-artificial-intelligence-regulation/

In this discussion, I referenced this paper led by Charles Zhang - Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors' Motivations. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3512982

Hiya! I have been away from this platform for a while. Here is what I have been up to these days! I kicked off the year with discussing data labor at @chiwork, moderated by @toby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4F8PFsqwvI

Interested in "an AI ecosystem that both generates amazing new technologies and shares the benefits of those technologies fairly with the people who created them"? Check out this op-ed from @hanlin and Social Futures member @nickmvincent

https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-generative-artificial-intelligence-regulation/

A HUGE congratulations to Drs. @hanlin and @nickmvincent for their successful thesis defenses last week! Their work on data labor and data leverage really has amazing potential to create a more equitable AI ecosystem.

My guess is you'll be reading about Nick's and Hanlin's work in the news a bunch over the coming years :) I'm so excited for what each of them will do in the next stage of their careers.

(Also, is this an epic first post on Mastodon or what?)