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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 · 2w
Quality matters to AskHistorians readers. It also matters a *lot* to the historians who answer those questions and who moderate. So the subreddit has banned AI. That's for good reason: We found 👏 ...
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The most interesting finding from our survey with AskHistorians is the relationship between someone's sense of belonging and a sense of AI use.

👏The more someone thinks AI is being used in the community, the lower they rank their sense of belonging.👏

This may help explain how AI contributes to community collapse. (note: it's a correlation)

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Petra van Cronenburg · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg57ze9t87qkn63zm6yzcf8zlzsldgn5c8v3eq8sc3s7q383ht52szlfwps What's your definition of 'community' in that test? A subreddit? Online community? I'm asking because I volunteer in a cultural heritage center and all our volunteers are deeply connect...
cobalt · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg57ze9t87qkn63zm6yzcf8zlzsldgn5c8v3eq8sc3s7q383ht52szlfwps Interesting to look at a sub Reddit as a community. I suppose the r/AskHistorians is a sub to start research on “community” but the volunteer historians there are answering questions...