Tag: AI-generated content
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Midweek Conversations – January 2026
After a short break over the winter holidays — and a few weeks dedicated to planning our activities for the new year — MSMC resumed its traditional Midweek Conversations series for 2026.On Wednesday, January 14, we have been pleased to host Guido Anselmi, Associate Professor at the University of Catania and a long-standing friend of…
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Haters will say it’s AI: Mapping AI-generated brain rot content communities on TikTok & YouTube
Team Members Amina Djedidi, Çiğdem Erd, Hanaa Hamidi, Sinin Nakhle, Anastasiia Osipova, Victoria Ro, Camilla Volpe (Project Leader) 1. Introduction to the project This project explores how the online phenomenon commonly referred to as brain rot relates to the emergence of what we call synthetic publics — collectives that aggregate around AI-generated or AI-influenced content…