Disclosure Standards for Social Media and Generative Artificial Intelligence Research: Toward Transparency and Replicability.

ABSTRACT: Social media dominate today's information ecosystem and provide valuable information for social research. Market researchers, social scientists, policymakers, government entities, public health researchers, and practitioners recognize the potential for social data to inspire innovation, support products and services, characterize public opinion, and guide decisions. The appeal of mining these rich datasets is clear. However, there is potential risk of data misuse, underscoring an equally huge and fundamental flaw in the research: there are no procedural standards and little transparency. Transparency across the processes of collecting and analyzing social media data is often limited due to proprietary algorithms. Spurious findings and biases introduced by artificial intelligence (AI) demon

SUBMITTER: Kostygina G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10795517 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature