We are happy to invite you to the ABRI Lunch Seminar "Lifting the Curtain on AI Use through Donated Conversations: When Confessional Data Deman ds Academic Curiosity" by Dr. Ward van Zoonen (University of Jyv äskylä, Finland / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, VU Ams terdam) organized by ABRI and the KIN Center for Digital In novation.
The seminar will take place on Friday, September 25th, from 12:00 to 13:00 (HG-07A36). ;
This is a lunch seminar; please register your atten dance by accepting/declining your emailed invitation by Tuesday, Sept ember 22nd at the latest (for catering).
Abstract
Generative AI took the world by storm, i
nviting utopian and dystopian accounts of what these technologies mea
n for how we work, organize, and collaborate. Interestingly, how peop
le actually use these technologies remains largely hidden as user con
versations happen in private, and disclosure of use is highly contest
ed. As a result, we have been left theorizing in the blind. Until now
...
The seminar introduces a line of research that aims to lift the curtain and shift us from speculation and self-reported uses to empirically grounded accounts of what GenAI is used for. The seminar will inform you about: a donated ChatGPT archive comprised of the ful l conversation history of 450 ChatGPT users. In total, 1.1 million tu rns (prompt-response sequences) are paired with survey data from the same users. In the seminar, we'll show how we collected the data, wha t such a data export can look like, and what we have done with it so far. We'll share some early quantifications of the data and offer an insight into papers in progress. We show that this data offers unique confessional archives that aren't curated for a specific audience, a nd offer a unique portal into how work is being mediated by GenAI. Th e data also goes far beyond work - conversations reflect professional uses, worries about life, social activities, and personal consultati ons.
The seminar is a mixture of methodology, phenomenology, an d discussion. We'll show you the pipeline for how to run a data donat ion study and how we are approaching analysis. We also encourage disc ussion from a hopefully interdisciplinary audience for example on: wh at are people actually doing with ChatGPT when their colleagues aren' t watching, and what does this mean for (studies of) work and organis ing? How does this data stretch the foci of our research - into new a nd at times uncomfortable territory? How can we make sense of what ca n be done with this data?
DESCRIPTION: We are happy to invite you to the ABRI Lun ch Seminar "Lifting the Curtain on AI Use through Donated Conversatio ns: When Confessional Data Demands Academic Curiosity" by Dr. Wa rd van Zoonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, VU Amsterdam) organized by ABRI and th e KIN Center for Digital Innovation. The seminar will take place on Friday, September 25th, from 12:00 to 13:00&n bsp;(HG-07A36). This is a lunch seminar; please regis ter your attendance by accepting/declining your emailed invitation by Tuesday, September 22nd at the latest (for catering) . Abstract