Did people stop asking other people for advice online once generative AI could answer their questions? Prior work on ChatGPT's effect on online help-seeking disagrees in both size and sign, in part because no study has compared affected communities against similar communities that AI cannot easily substitute for, over...
Venue prestige and citation counts are two widely used, albeit imperfect, signals of research quality. When the two signals conflict, evaluators must decide how much weight to assign each. Yet, it remains unknown how researchers across disciplines trade off these two signals when evaluating research outcome. To fill th...
Fengyuan Michael Liu, Hazem Ibrahim, Yasir Zaki et al.· 0 citations
The results suggest that decision models are useful as a first step in the annotation pipeline: routing low-confidence items to an LLM matches or exceeds the LLM alone at a quarter to half of its cost.
Prediction-market probabilities increasingly appear in news coverage, yet little is known about which market movements become news or how much trading money sits behind the numbers journalists quote. Unlike a poll, a market price can be moved by anyone willing to trade, so the cost of manufacturing a number that circul...
An audit of AI provider recommendations in four registry-backed service domains across the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas finds whether an AI referral is trustworthy depends strongly on its retrieval configuration rather than on the underlying model alone, yet an answer produced without retrieval often carries no...
Allegations that TikTok shadow bans political content shape what creators post, what advertisers fund, and how regulators act, yet they are hard to adjudicate because platforms do not disclose how content is ranked. We test the claim with a dense hourly panel of 556,946 follower-normalized views across 2,753 videos fro...
