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interesting interviews with Bluesky and Mastodon users about integrating genAI in social media. pre-print just uploaded last week. tl;dr is that in conversation folks are less "pro"/"anti" and more nuanced about use-cases, boundaries, social impact.

arxiv.org"Okay, I've Actually Softened My Take on This": How People in Decentralized Social Media Reason about the Appropriateness of Generative AIGenerative AI (GenAI) is increasingly integrated into social media, raising questions about whether, where, and how it belongs. In decentralized social media (DSM), these decisions are distributed acr...

20/9/26, 8:20 pm4 reposts43 likes

bryan newbold

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20 Sept

> When presented with concrete scenarios involving GenAI in DSM, participants rarely treated its appropriateness as a simple question of whether the technology was “good” or “bad.”

bryan newbold

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20 Sept

> Instead, they reasoned about it by drawing boundaries, specifying nuanced conditions under which particular GenAI scenarios could be appropriate or inappropriate.

bryan newbold

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20 Sept

> Participants’ reasoning was also shaped by what they valued about DSM: alternatives to centralized infrastructure, greater individual and collective agency, and spaces oriented around authentic interaction between people.