Wired to offend: cancel culture meets generative artificial intelligence
Cancel culture has been limited to individuals and corporations being cancelled. However, AI is also getting cancelled, challenging our understanding of machine autonomy and cancel culture. This paper investigates how AI cancellation is discussed on X (Twitter) using a recent AI cancellation inciden...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1821752025-01-19T15:33:12Z Wired to offend: cancel culture meets generative artificial intelligence Prahl, Andrew Koh, Shanice Jie Qing Tan, Justina Ann Qi Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Social Sciences Cancel culture Artificial intelligence Cancel culture has been limited to individuals and corporations being cancelled. However, AI is also getting cancelled, challenging our understanding of machine autonomy and cancel culture. This paper investigates how AI cancellation is discussed on X (Twitter) using a recent AI cancellation incident involving Nothing, Forever, an AI-generated parody of Seinfeld. Qualitative content analysis is performed on 734 relevant posts to extract the main categories dominating the discourse, including emotional expression, attitudes toward AI, and discussion of human versus AI qualities. The results provide insights regarding how people perceive the autonomy of AI and who is responsible for AI output. National Research Foundation (NRF) Published version This research is part of the programme DesCartes and is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme. 2025-01-13T06:43:05Z 2025-01-13T06:43:05Z 2024 Journal Article Prahl, A., Koh, S. J. Q. & Tan, J. A. Q. (2024). Wired to offend: cancel culture meets generative artificial intelligence. Human-Machine Communication, 9, 81-99. https://dx.doi.org/10.30658/hmc.9.6 2638-602X https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182175 10.30658/hmc.9.6 2-s2.0-85211365945 9 81 99 en CREATE Human-Machine Communication © 2024 Authors. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. application/pdf |
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Cancel culture has been limited to individuals and corporations being cancelled. However, AI is also getting cancelled, challenging our understanding of machine autonomy and cancel culture. This paper investigates how AI cancellation is discussed on X (Twitter) using a recent AI cancellation incident involving Nothing, Forever, an AI-generated parody of Seinfeld. Qualitative content analysis is performed on 734 relevant posts to extract the main categories dominating the discourse, including emotional expression, attitudes toward AI, and discussion of human versus AI qualities. The results provide insights regarding how people perceive the autonomy of AI and who is responsible for AI output. |
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