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Anders Giovanni Møller @andersgiovanni.com · Jul 27

Interesting Julia, looking forward to chat in Vienna!

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Pioneer Centre for AI @aicentre.dk · Jul 25

Key Finding: Generative AI broadens participation and facilitates user interaction, but risks saturating platforms with perceived lower-quality, generic content, leading to diminishing authenticity, trust, and diversity of perspectives.

Check out the explainer: ai-research.andersgiovanni.com

The Impact of Generative AI on Social Media: An Experimental Study

ai-research.andersgiovanni.com

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Anders Giovanni Møller @andersgiovanni.com · Jul 24

No fewer than three people were needed to cover all the aspects of our dialogue simulation paper. Thanks for the interest — check out the preprint. Link in Dustin’s post.
@dustinbwright.com @ic2s2.bsky.social #ic2s2

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Anders Giovanni Møller @andersgiovanni.com · Jul 22

#ic2s2 I’ll have a poster (#21) today on 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 ✌🏼

Anders Giovanni Møller @andersgiovanni.com · Jun 18

What actually happens on social media when users get access to integrated AI?🤖

In our new preprint, we present a controlled experiment testing the impact of generative AI (4 treatments + control) on a social media platform, using a representative sample of nearly 700 U.S. participants.

The Impact of Generative AI on Social Media: An Experimental Study

ai-research.andersgiovanni.com

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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · Jun 26

It’s a wrap ✨

One more edition of #icwsm is over. Amazing research outputs, insightful conversations and many new, exciting ideas!

Thanks to all the organizers, chairs and volunteers who made the event possible, and to all the participants for making ICWSM 2025 a memorable edition 🇩🇰

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Anders Giovanni Møller @andersgiovanni.com · Jun 27

No worries Mor, and appreciate the shoutout of our work. It was both fun and interesting to delve into 😉

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · Jun 20

Excellent story in @theverge.com today on the impact of AI-Mediated Communication. Quotes me but the best line is the closer from the writer, Sara Parker.

You sound like ChatGPT

AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

www.theverge.com

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Anders Giovanni Møller @andersgiovanni.com · Jun 27

Appreciate the kind words, Rabiraj 😊 The shoutout should go equally much to Daniele, who also did a big part.

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Jun 26

Testing LLMs in the Prisoner’s Dilemma to reveal their moral biases. LLMs can defect often but become more forgiving and less retaliatory than humans when opponents are mostly cooperative. Nicolò Fontana at #ICWSM. w @frapierri.bsky.social
Paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · Jun 26

Adamic-Glance Awardee Keynote: @gvrkiran.bsky.social on misinformation on whatsapp through the lens of a large data donation program #icwsm

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Jun 24

Detecting participation in collective action from social media text. Great tool to build large-scale ground truth about collective engagement online. Fantastic work by @ariannapera.bsky.social at #ICWSM.
Paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
Code: github.com/ariannap13/e...

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · Jun 21

Fresh evidence agreeing w/ one of our studies mentioned in the story above, from @danielmromero.bsky.social @davidjurgens.bsky.social @lajello.bsky.social

"AI-tools increase user engagement and volume of generated content, but... decrease the perceived quality and authenticity of discussion"

The Impact of Generative AI on Social Media: An Experimental Study

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly deployed across social media platforms, yet their implications for user behavior and experience remain understudied, particularly regardi...

arxiv.org

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Jun 19

AI-assisted social media posting increases the volume of content people produce. However, that content is perceived as lower quality than purely human-generated posts. A dangerous spiral that may flood social media with low-quality content. Results from a controlled study: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14295

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Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 21

I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs.

For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7

Let me know if I missed anyone!

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Anders Giovanni Møller @andersgiovanni.com · Jun 18

Huge thanks to my supervisors @lajello.bsky.social, @danielmromero.bsky.social, and @davidjurgens.bsky.social !🙌🏼

@itu.dk @carlsbergfondet.dk @umich.edu

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Anders Giovanni Møller @andersgiovanni.com · Jun 18

We find a clear duality between the use of AI tools and participants’ perception of the content. All that and much more on our blog and in the paper:

🧠 Blog: ai-research.andersgiovanni.com

📄 Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14295

The Impact of Generative AI on Social Media: An Experimental Study

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Anders Giovanni Møller @andersgiovanni.com · Jun 18

What actually happens on social media when users get access to integrated AI?🤖

In our new preprint, we present a controlled experiment testing the impact of generative AI (4 treatments + control) on a social media platform, using a representative sample of nearly 700 U.S. participants.

The Impact of Generative AI on Social Media: An Experimental Study

ai-research.andersgiovanni.com

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Mar 5

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS!
The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Stylized map of Detroit (MI) showing the highway network, and the network of social connections between urban residents. The connections intersecting highways are sparser than elsewehere. Image credit Karo Berghuber (Insta: @kariot.lines)

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Michele Coscia @mikk.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · Feb 13

The second edition of my Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist is out! You should check it out if you like to learn about network science or graph neural networks. Check out the blog post I wrote to present it: https://www.michelecoscia.com/?p=2393

| The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist v2Michele Coscia

www.michelecoscia.com

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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨 Spread the word! 🚨 The #ICWSM Adamic-Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award is now accepting nominations and self-nominations! 🌟

📅 Deadline for this year's award: March 15th

More info: www.icwsm.org/2025/submit/...

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · Jan 31

📣 The PhD Open Call 2025 is now open! Get in touch with us to apply for a PhD with NERDS in beautiful Copenhagen. Deadline: Feb 24th

nerds.itu.dk/2025/01/31/p...

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · Jan 28

🔦 Researcher Spotlight: Arianna Pera

👋 Meet Arianna, PhD Student in NERDS. Arianna has been in the group for 2 years.

🌟 What does Arianna do: Studying how collective action can arise from social media interactions.

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · Jan 22

Great NERDS presence at the 1st CS2 Italy conference in Trento 🇮🇹
nerds.itu.dk/2025/01/21/g...

Collage of photographs of Trento, of one speaker presenting, and of a group photo

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IT-Universitetet i København @itu.dk · Jan 14

Vi har samlet et starter pack med forskere og repræsentanter fra ITU på Bluesky. Mød dem her 👇
go.bsky.app/E8WJwXS

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