When Artificial Intelligence Meets Human Intelligence: Topics and Sentiments about ChatGPT in Online Knowledge Sharing Communities

Yao Sun, Lijing Wang, Kevin Diggs, Avanish Kulkarni, Kevin Steiger, Tai Vu, Vibha Venkataraman

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Abstract

OpenAI's release of ChatGPT has sparked worldwide discussion and debates about its potential implications. Knowledge sharing conversations in online Q&A communities, for example, demonstrate how ChatGPT is perceived when human collective intelligence is unleashed. We focus on textual data collected from the Stack Exchange community to investigate the major topics and sentiments generated when community members share their knowledge about ChatGPT. Different topic modeling and sentiment analysis algorithms were applied and compared to understand major perceptions and attitudes toward ChatGPT, and to illustrate the perceived opportunities and challenges surrounding ChatGPT and AI algorithms. Our study presents the differences in terms of ChatGPT-related sentiments and discussion themes across different types of subcommunities and highlights the critical roles of feature extraction and threshold selection in further improving the accuracy of topic models and precisely capturing the patterns of prevalent sentiments.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2025
EditorsTung X. Bui
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages233-242
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9780998133188
StatePublished - 2025
Event58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2025 - Honolulu, United States
Duration: Jan 7 2025Jan 10 2025

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
ISSN (Print)1530-1605

Conference

Conference58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2025
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu
Period1/7/251/10/25

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Engineering

Keywords

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • ChatGPT
  • Online Q&A Communities
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Topic Modeling

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