"The key point is that summary-and-cite AI tools are performative. Since visibility begets visibility, they help enact the world they purport to merely describe"
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Jess Hagman
I'd missed this Jefferson Pooley LSE blog piece, "The Matthew effect in AI summary."
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Really interesting to see him using Merton in it like I did in my "KULA" piece (doi.org/10.18357/kul...).
Brainwave!
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
