How has generative AI changed what students say and do in campus online communities since ChatGPT arrived?
Exploring student perceptions of generative AI expressed on social media
Large-scale qualitative analysis of opinions and perspectives about generative AI expressed on social media (e.g., Reddit). We will use NLP and LLM-assisted workflows to sample, code, and synthesize themes across communities over time.
Objectives
- Assemble a reproducible pipeline to collect and curate posts and comments from relevant communities (e.g., Reddit)
- Develop a coding schema for attitudes, perceived benefits/risks, and use cases of generative AI
- Evaluate LLM-assisted coding against human annotations (agreement, precision/recall, calibration)
- Map sentiment and themes over time and by community; publish a short report and artifacts