Bernhard Rieder

so @SBrkhrdt and I just published a paper on the political economy of large pre-trained AI models (aka "foundation models"); we are specifically focusing on the role of prompting, how it changes the way AI applications are built, and what that means; journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

New preprint, "Larger, younger, faster, harder: expansion, transformation, and inequality in YouTube's creator economy (2019–2026)", comparing the channel landscape above 1k subscribers six years apart. Lots changed. Full text: lnkd.in/eFPz9B89

Together with Bastian August and Brogan Latil, I spent decidedly too much time trying to understand how Andrew Tate remains present on YouTube after his two channels were suspended.

Full paper in New Media & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

two papers have just come out that evaluate the consistency and temporal coverage of the search endpoint of YouTube's API from a research perspective; both found pretty big problems; arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727 and arxiv.org/abs/2506.04422

we are hiring a PhD candidate for the project "Interface of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Knowledge, Media, and Interpretation"; details here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/p…