Wired to offend: cancel culture meets generative artificial intelligence

• Main Authors: Prahl, Andrew, Koh, Shanice Jie Qing, Tan, Justina Ann Qi
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2025
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Cancel culture; Artificial intelligence
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182175
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...