Today, my book The Web of Knowledge by @politybooks.bsky.social is out in the US and is accompanied by @darthvetter.bsky.social 's brilliant and thought-provoking review published in IJOC. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

New paper out today: The Blocklog: 20 Years of Content Moderation on Wikipedia. In New Media & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The block log: 20 years of content moderation on Wikipedia - Ryan McGrady, 2025

This study examines two decades of user blocking on the English Wikipedia to understand how a volunteer-run, non-profit platform has adapted its content moderat...

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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...

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.

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.

"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.

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...

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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...

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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 🇨🇿

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/...

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...

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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...

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...

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is there any reason at all that the Democratic party should not immediately demand Hegseth's resignation?

"Wikenigma is a unique wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge" : wikenigma.org.uk#dokuwiki__co...

A Catalyst for Curiosity

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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

“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...

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.”

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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...

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....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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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? amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn....

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...

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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! 🔍📖

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...

Wiki Workshop 2025@wikiworkshop.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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.

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

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 - 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...

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The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

Trump Costs America

Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.

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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

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...

Invaluable work.

Mike Dickison@adzebill.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

The repeal of the Biden administration's executive order regarding AI is extremely dangerous. That an administration paid for by tech billionaires is behind the repeal should alarm everyone.

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 2y ago

My statement on the repeal of President Biden's Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

📣CFP 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.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...

Happy to share a recently published article which traces technical writing students' writing process as they engage generative AI -https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10572252.2024.2445302?src=exp-la #genAI #writing #teamrhetoric