Kenny Joseph
@kennyjoseph.bsky.social
Reposted by Kenny Joseph
In our new paper (w/ @jongreen.bsky.social , @davidlazer.bsky.social, & Philip Resnik), now up in Nature Human Behaviour (nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02223-4), we argue that this tension really speaks to a broader misconceptualization of what misinformation is and how it works.
Using co-sharing to identify use of mainstream news for promoting potentially misleading narratives - Nature Human Behaviour
Goel et al. examine why some factually correct news articles are often shared by users who also shared fake news articles on social media.
nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In our new paper (w/ @jongreen.bsky.social , @davidlazer.bsky.social, & Philip Resnik), now up in Nature Human Behaviour (nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02223-4), we argue that this tension really speaks to a broader misconceptualization of what misinformation is and how it works.
Not that I'm aware of, although agree that's the natural place to head next. c.ai also just introduced several new models, would be really interesting to explore changes to the site surrounding that! The subreddit (r/CharacterAI) has a lot of interesting thoughts on this.
May 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Not that I'm aware of, although agree that's the natural place to head next. c.ai also just introduced several new models, would be really interesting to explore changes to the site surrounding that! The subreddit (r/CharacterAI) has a lot of interesting thoughts on this.
We did, actually! Only 5 characters / user max were in the sample. I think it definitely could be that we oversample specific fandoms because it's a snowball sample. But I would be surprised, especially given what we've seen on the subreddit, if fanfiction overall is less prevalent than we estimate.
May 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We did, actually! Only 5 characters / user max were in the sample. I think it definitely could be that we oversample specific fandoms because it's a snowball sample. But I would be surprised, especially given what we've seen on the subreddit, if fanfiction overall is less prevalent than we estimate.
Yea! There's definitely some nuances in the paper on this (possible sampling biases, how we pre-processed for this specific analysis), but our data, at least, was very heavy on a pretty small number of fan-fiction universes.
May 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Yea! There's definitely some nuances in the paper on this (possible sampling biases, how we pre-processed for this specific analysis), but our data, at least, was very heavy on a pretty small number of fan-fiction universes.
:/. Definitely had a similar feeling when going back to reread those Wildchat papers after spending time with these data.
May 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
:/. Definitely had a similar feeling when going back to reread those Wildchat papers after spending time with these data.
Reposted by Kenny Joseph
Got this written up, fwiw.
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
May 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Got this written up, fwiw.
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
Got this written up, fwiw.
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
May 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Got this written up, fwiw.
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
We (a motivated undergrad) have collected a whole bunch of characters and have been looking at what's on the site. Happy to share.
April 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We (a motivated undergrad) have collected a whole bunch of characters and have been looking at what's on the site. Happy to share.