Matt Vetter
@darthvetter.bsky.social
Mainly academic stuff - digital writing + Wikipedia studies
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New short paper on "The Ethics of Accidental Vlogs" in M/C Journal today, written with my
@idpiumass.bsky.social
colleague Harshita Snehi. Accidental vlogs as in publicly visible videos for private/small audiences (esp. common in Hindi YouTube). journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
@idpiumass.bsky.social
colleague Harshita Snehi. Accidental vlogs as in publicly visible videos for private/small audiences (esp. common in Hindi YouTube). journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
The Ethics of Accidental Vlogs | M/C Journal
Introduction
A teenage girl wishes her friend a happy birthday in German. Two American kids test a camera and upload the results. Colleagues upload a recording of a meeting for the benefit of employ...
journal.media-culture.org.au
October 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
New short paper on "The Ethics of Accidental Vlogs" in M/C Journal today, written with my
@idpiumass.bsky.social
colleague Harshita Snehi. Accidental vlogs as in publicly visible videos for private/small audiences (esp. common in Hindi YouTube). journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
@idpiumass.bsky.social
colleague Harshita Snehi. Accidental vlogs as in publicly visible videos for private/small audiences (esp. common in Hindi YouTube). journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
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This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY
As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...
link.springer.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Vetter, M.A., Jiang, J. & McDowell, Z.J. An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability. AI & Soc (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s001...
An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY
As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...
doi.org
March 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Vetter, M.A., Jiang, J. & McDowell, Z.J. An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability. AI & Soc (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s001...
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- T-minus 180 minutes and counting -
Book launch for "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social 5pm at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague 🇨🇿
Book launch for "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social 5pm at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague 🇨🇿
May 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
- T-minus 180 minutes and counting -
Book launch for "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social 5pm at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague 🇨🇿
Book launch for "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social 5pm at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague 🇨🇿
New work out with Brent Lucia and Varshil Patel - "The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear" - published in Convergence
This piece is a critical analysis of media responses following the public advent of ChatGPT in 2022.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This piece is a critical analysis of media responses following the public advent of ChatGPT in 2022.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear - Brent Lucia, Matthew Vetter, Varshil Patel, 2025
The advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022 catalyzed a wave of excitement and apprehension, but especially fear. This article examines the dystopian narratives that...
journals.sagepub.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
New work out with Brent Lucia and Varshil Patel - "The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear" - published in Convergence
This piece is a critical analysis of media responses following the public advent of ChatGPT in 2022.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This piece is a critical analysis of media responses following the public advent of ChatGPT in 2022.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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AI companies inundating Wikimedia per @engadget.bsky.social - In recent years, it's felt like @wikimediafoundation.org leadership has done an about-face on @wikicommons.bsky.social, deprioritizing it/rethinking its purpose. Wondering now if this is the context...
www.engadget.com/ai/wikipedia...
www.engadget.com/ai/wikipedia...
Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024 due to AI crawlers taking its content to train generative AI models. It has to find a w...
www.engadget.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
AI companies inundating Wikimedia per @engadget.bsky.social - In recent years, it's felt like @wikimediafoundation.org leadership has done an about-face on @wikicommons.bsky.social, deprioritizing it/rethinking its purpose. Wondering now if this is the context...
www.engadget.com/ai/wikipedia...
www.engadget.com/ai/wikipedia...
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is there any reason at all that the Democratic party should not immediately demand Hegseth's resignation?
March 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
is there any reason at all that the Democratic party should not immediately demand Hegseth's resignation?
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"Wikenigma is a unique wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge" :
wikenigma.org.uk#dokuwiki__co...
wikenigma.org.uk#dokuwiki__co...
A Catalyst for Curiosity
wikenigma.org.uk
March 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"Wikenigma is a unique wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge" :
wikenigma.org.uk#dokuwiki__co...
wikenigma.org.uk#dokuwiki__co...
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An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY
As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...
link.springer.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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“AI fairness” is so ridiculous it’s maddening. The level of bias inherent in data only ensures you will amplify previous issues - just faster and stronger and more “efficiently” (but using 100x more power and money?)
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
www.wired.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“AI fairness” is so ridiculous it’s maddening. The level of bias inherent in data only ensures you will amplify previous issues - just faster and stronger and more “efficiently” (but using 100x more power and money?)
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
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In an era when gaming literacy is fundamental to understanding popular culture and technological power, 'Ready Reader One' examines the role of videogame literature in explaining not only how we play videogames, but the stories we tell with, about, and around them.
lsupress.org/978080718089...
lsupress.org/978080718089...
November 13, 2024 at 2:04 PM
In an era when gaming literacy is fundamental to understanding popular culture and technological power, 'Ready Reader One' examines the role of videogame literature in explaining not only how we play videogames, but the stories we tell with, about, and around them.
lsupress.org/978080718089...
lsupress.org/978080718089...
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In uncertain times, access to reliable information is more crucial than ever. Revisit this paper by Zachary McDowell and Matthew Vetter to highlight Wikipedia’s community policies and procedures.
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January 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
In uncertain times, access to reliable information is more crucial than ever. Revisit this paper by Zachary McDowell and Matthew Vetter to highlight Wikipedia’s community policies and procedures.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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First they came for our paper products and they didn’t understand that meant toilet paper, so they didn’t protest… then they came for wine and …. Bad things happened?
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Trump threatens 200% tariff on European alcohol as trade war escalates | CNN Business
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to impose a massive tariff on European alcohol in response to the European Union’s retaliation against his steel and aluminum tariffs – a tit-for-tat esca...
amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org
March 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
First they came for our paper products and they didn’t understand that meant toilet paper, so they didn’t protest… then they came for wine and …. Bad things happened?
amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn....
amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn....
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We received 64 submissions for #WikiWorkshop2025 🙌
A huge thank you to the @wikiresearch.bsky.social community for such an amazing engagement. Our reviewers will be diving into them in the coming weeks... stay tuned! 🔍📖
A huge thank you to the @wikiresearch.bsky.social community for such an amazing engagement. Our reviewers will be diving into them in the coming weeks... stay tuned! 🔍📖
March 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
We received 64 submissions for #WikiWorkshop2025 🙌
A huge thank you to the @wikiresearch.bsky.social community for such an amazing engagement. Our reviewers will be diving into them in the coming weeks... stay tuned! 🔍📖
A huge thank you to the @wikiresearch.bsky.social community for such an amazing engagement. Our reviewers will be diving into them in the coming weeks... stay tuned! 🔍📖
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Final reminder for the call for submissions for Wiki Workshop 2025: There are 3 days left to submit your extended abstracts (max 2 pages) until the submission deadline on *March 9, 2025 23:59 AoE*
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
Call for Papers for the 12th edition of Wiki Workshop is out: Submit your 2-page extended abstract of your research about Wikimedia projects by March 9! All submissions are non-archival (ongoing, completed, already published works are welcome).
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
March 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Final reminder for the call for submissions for Wiki Workshop 2025: There are 3 days left to submit your extended abstracts (max 2 pages) until the submission deadline on *March 9, 2025 23:59 AoE*
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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The journal I edit, *communication +1* just released a new special issue on #MediaAesthetics that might be of some interest to my academic and humanistically minded friends. The journal is fully #openaccess so please check it out. communicationplusone.org
communication +1
communicationplusone.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The journal I edit, *communication +1* just released a new special issue on #MediaAesthetics that might be of some interest to my academic and humanistically minded friends. The journal is fully #openaccess so please check it out. communicationplusone.org
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The special issue includes this (very timely) article by @darthvetter.bsky.social, Jialei Jiang & @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social :
"An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability" doi.org/10.1007/s001...
(2/2)
"An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability" doi.org/10.1007/s001...
(2/2)
An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY
As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...
doi.org
February 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The special issue includes this (very timely) article by @darthvetter.bsky.social, Jialei Jiang & @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social :
"An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability" doi.org/10.1007/s001...
(2/2)
"An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability" doi.org/10.1007/s001...
(2/2)
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A new article I coauthored with @darthvetter.bsky.social is out today in AI and Society, "An Endangered Species: How LLMs threaten Wikipedia's sustainability" #wikipedia #wikiresearch link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY
As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...
link.springer.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A new article I coauthored with @darthvetter.bsky.social is out today in AI and Society, "An Endangered Species: How LLMs threaten Wikipedia's sustainability" #wikipedia #wikiresearch link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Call for Papers for the 12th edition of Wiki Workshop is out: Submit your 2-page extended abstract of your research about Wikimedia projects by March 9! All submissions are non-archival (ongoing, completed, already published works are welcome).
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
February 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Call for Papers for the 12th edition of Wiki Workshop is out: Submit your 2-page extended abstract of your research about Wikimedia projects by March 9! All submissions are non-archival (ongoing, completed, already published works are welcome).
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...
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Invaluable work.
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Invaluable work.