Hello everyone, This is a reminder that we'll be starting our monthly Research Showcase in an hour. We'll focus on *The Impact of LLMs on Knowledge Production Communities*. We invite you to watch via the YouTube stream at https://www.youtube.com/live/R9zsL07v8YI and join the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
Best, Kinneret On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM Kinneret Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The July 2025 Research Showcase will be live-streamed tomorrow(!), > Wednesday, July 16, at 9:30 AM PT / 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here > <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1750264200>. Our theme this month is *The > Impact of LLMs on Knowledge Production Communities*. > > *We invite you to watch via the YouTube stream: > https://www.youtube.com/live/R9zsL07v8YI > <https://www.youtube.com/live/R9zsL07v8YI>.* As always, you can join the > conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live. > > Our presentations this month: > > *The Rise of AI-Generated Content in Wikipedia* > By > *Creston Brooks and Denis Peskoff (Northwestern University)*In the age of > online AI inundation, how frequently are people using LLMs when creating > new Wikipedia articles and for what purposes? In the summer of 2024, we > took initial steps towards addressing these questions by using two > AI-generated text detectors, GPT-Zero and Binoculars, to compare detection > scores from Wikipedia articles written in August 2024 to those created > before the release of GPT-3.5 in March 2022. After calibrating each tool, > we conduct a small case study, inspecting each of the 45 English articles > flagged as AI-generated by both tools to better understand the motivations > for using LLMs to create Wikipedia pages. > > > *The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities*By *Gordon > Burtch (Boston University's, Questrom School of Business)* > Generative artificial intelligence technologies, especially large language > models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, are revolutionizing information acquisition and > content production across a variety of domains. These technologies have a > significant potential to impact participation and content production in > online knowledge communities. We provide initial evidence of this, > analyzing data from Stack Overflow and Reddit developer communities between > October 2021 and March 2023, documenting ChatGPT’s influence on user > activity in the former. We observe significant declines in both website > visits and question volumes at Stack Overflow, particularly around topics > where ChatGPT excels. By contrast, activity in Reddit communities shows no > evidence of decline, suggesting that social fabric plays a crucial role as > a buffer against the community-degrading effects of LLMs. Finally, the > decline in participation on Stack Overflow is found to be concentrated > among newer users, indicating that more junior, less socially embedded > users are particularly likely to exit. > > Best, > Kinneret > > -- > > Kinneret Gordon > > Lead Research Community Officer > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > *Learn more about Wikimedia Research <https://research.wikimedia.org/>* > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
