Sukrit Venkatagiri

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ScamPilot: Simulating Conversations with LLMs to Protect Against Online Scams

Fraud continues to proliferate online, from phishing and ransomware to impersonation scams. Yet automated prevention approaches adapt slowly and may not reliably protect users from falling prey to new scams. To better combat online scams, we developed \ScamPilot, a conversational interface that inoculates users agains…

CSCW '252nd AuthorCore Concepts in Privacy Research

Privacy versus Transparency: Navigating Public Records Requests and Adversarial Dynamics in a Distributed Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration

Public records laws are standard for state and federal governments across the U.S. Such laws rest on the core notion that transparency, enacted through access to governmental documentation, will ensure accountability and minimize governmental corruption. However, these laws can also be exploited to harass or burden go…

CSCW '242nd AuthorSession 3d: Collaborative Learning and Peer Support

OSINT Research Studios: A Flexible Crowdsourcing Framework to Scale Up Open Source Intelligence Investigations

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) investigations, which rely entirely on publicly available data such as social media, play an increasingly important role in solving crimes and holding governments accountable. The growing volume of data and complex nature of tasks, however, means there is a pressing need to scale and s…

DIS '231st AuthorContent Moderation & Platform Governance +2

CoSINT: Designing a Collaborative Capture the Flag Competition to Investigate Misinformation

Crowdsourced investigations shore up democratic institutions by debunking misinformation and uncovering human rights abuses. However, current crowdsourcing approaches rely on simplistic collaborative or competitive models and lack technological support, limiting their collective impact. Prior research has shown that b…

CHI '222nd AuthorCommunity Collaboration & Wikipedia +2

Compete, Collaborate, Investigate: Exploring the Social Structures of Open Source Intelligence Investigations

Online investigations are increasingly conducted by individuals with diverse skill levels and experiences, with mixed results. Novice investigations often result in vigilantism or doxxing, while expert investigations have greater success rates and fewer mishaps. Many of these experts are involved in a community of pra…

CSCW '211st AuthorExpert Work

CrowdSolve: Managing Tensions in an Expert-Led Crowdsourced Investigation

Investigators in fields such as journalism and law enforcement have long sought the public’s help with investigations. New technologies have also allowed amateur sleuths to lead their own crowdsourced investigations (CIs), that have traditionally only been the purview of expert investigators. These CIs have been faced…

CHI '213rd AuthorOnline Harassment & Counter-Tools +1

The Psychological Well-Being of Content Moderators

An estimated 100,000 people work today as commercial content moderators. These moderators are often exposed to disturbing content, which can lead to lasting psychological and emotional distress. This literature review investigates moderators' psychological symptomatology, drawing on other occupations involving trauma…

CSCW '191st AuthorCrowds and participatory sensing

GroundTruth: Augmenting Expert Image Geolocation with Crowdsourcing and Shared Representations

Expert investigators bring advanced skills and deep experience to analyze visual evidence, but they face limits on their time and attention. In contrast, crowds of novices can be highly scalable and parallelizable, but lack expertise. In this paper, we introduce the concept of shared representations for crowd–augmente…

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