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Gluing Pizza, Eating Rocks, and Counting Rs in Strawberry: The
Discursive Social Function of Stupid AI Answers

https://advait.org/files/sarkar_2025_stupid_ai_answers.pdf

Advait Sarkar paper for #CHIWORK

""the primary objective of such queries is not to actually receive a correct answer, but rather to obtain an artefact of discourse.. discussants collectively construct an imagined user who is deceived by the stupid answer, while distancing themselves from that naïvety. "

Hi everyone!

Excited to share our new paper: “It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study. We investigated how data analysis workflows can be assisted or impaired by generative AI, which include benefits to the information foraging and sensemaking loops of data analysis.

Check out the preprint here: https://advait.org/files/drosos_2024_bing_participatory_prompting.pdf.

I will be presenting the paper at #CHIWORK next week in Newcastle.

Next was a very important talk from Alarith Uhde at #CHIWORK on developing systems to help with shift planning in a #healthcare setting. This is such an important issue and application area, with lots of tech being thrown at the problem. Uhde's work is well thought out and essential for the #FutureOfWork in nearly every industry. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl3N88qkdm8 (5/8)