In this paper, we study how different Reddit communities discuss generative AI in high school education, focusing on learning, academic integrity, AI detection, and emotional framing. Using 3,789 posts from five education-related subreddits, we compare student, teacher, and mixed communities using a pipeline that combines keyword retrieval, human-validated relevance filtering, LLM-assisted annotation, and statistical tests of group differences.
We find that stakeholder position strongly shapes discourse: teachers are more likely to articulate explicit pedagogical trade-offs, simultaneously framing AI as both beneficial and harmful for learning, whereas students more often discuss AI tactically in relation to accusations, grades, and enforcement. Across all groups, detector-related discourse is associated with significantly higher negative emotion, with larger effects for students and mixed communities than for teachers. These results suggest that AI detectors function not only as contested technical tools but also as governance mechanisms that impose asymmetric emotional burdens on those subject to institutional enforcement. Finally, we argue that detection-based enforcement should not serve as a primary academic-integrity strategy and that process-based assessment offers a fairer alternative for verifying authorship in AI-mediated classrooms.
Grievance Politics vs. Policy Debates: A Cross-Platform Analysis of Conservative Discourse on Truth Social and Reddit
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences（GESIS – 莱布尼茨社会科学研究所）；RWTH Aachen University（亚琛工业大学）；Heriot-Watt University（赫瑞-瓦特大学）；The University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学）；Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院）；Harvard University（哈佛大学）
The Rise of AI Agent Communities: Large-Scale Analysis of Discourse and Interaction on Moltbook
University of South Florida（南佛罗里达大学）；University of Cincinnati（辛辛那提大学）；Florida International University（佛罗里达国际大学）；George Mason University（乔治梅森大学）；Rutgers University（罗格斯大学）
Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
DIMES Dept., University of Calabria Italy；IT University of Copenhagen\ Centre for AI Denmark；DIMES Dept., University of Calabria；IT University of Copenhagen\ Centre for AI
