About

I am a critically-informed technologist working on pressing societal issues around gender, computing, and AI. My work focuses on developing and evaluating software systems to combat online sexual violence.

Currently, I am in the fourth year of my PhD in Information at the University of Michigan, advised by Dr. Eric Gilbert and Dr. Sarita Schoenebeck. My research is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant 2311102.

Research interests: non-consensual intimate media, generative-AI "deepfake" content, social computing.

Selected Media

404 Media Twitter Acts Fast on Non-Consensual Nudity If It Thinks It's a Copyright Violation

TechPolicy.Press New Research Highlights X's Failures in Removing Non-Consensual Intimate Media

Mashable Study: Reports of Non-Consensual Nude Images Are Ignored On X

The Verge Copyright Is The Only Functional Law Of The Internet, Deepfake Nudes Edition

Publications

Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Media: An Audit Study of Deepfakes

Li Qiwei, Shihui Zhang, Andrew Timothy Kasper, Joshua Ashkinaze, Asia A Eaton, Sarita Schoenebeck, Eric Gilbert

Preprint

Online field study on X shows DMCA reports of deepfake nude images are removed in under 25 hours, while internal X reports are ignored for over 3 weeks.

A Law of One's Own: The Inefficacy of the DMCA for Non-Consensual Intimate Media

Li Qiwei, Shihui Zhang, Samantha Paige Pratt, Andrew Timothy Kasper, Eric Gilbert, Sarita Schoenebeck

Preprint

Statistical survival analysis of DMCA tickets from Lumen database shows most reported NCIM urls are not removed in 6 weeks.

Feminist Interaction Techniques: Deterring Non-Consensual Screenshots with Interaction Techniques

Li Qiwei, Francesca Lameiro, Shefali Patel, Eytan Adar, Eric Gilbert, Sarita Schoenebeck

UIST 24'

We developed Hands-Off, an interaction technique for messaging applications that deters non-consensual screenshots.

The Sociotechnical Stack: Opportunities for Social Computing Research in Non-consensual Intimate Media

Li Qiwei, Allison McDonald, Oliver L Haimson, Sarita Schoenebeck, Eric Gilbert

CSCW 24'

This paper links NCIM harms to the specific technological components that facilitate them. We introduce the sociotechnical stack, a conceptual framework designed to map the technical stack to its corresponding social impacts.

Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment: A Systematic Review for Clarifications, Framework, and Future Directions

Hua Shen, Tiffany Knearem, Reshmi Ghosh, Kenan Alkiek, Kundan Krishna, Yachuan Liu, Ziqiao Ma, Savvas Petridis, Yi-Hao Peng, Li Qiwei, Sushrita Rakshit, Chenglei Si, Yutong Xie, Jeffrey P Bigham, Frank Bentley, Joyce Chai, Zachary Lipton, Qiaozhu Mei, Rada Mihalcea, Michael Terry, Diyi Yang, Meredith Ringel Morris, Paul Resnick, David Jurgens

Preprint

A systematic review to characterize, define and scope human-AI alignment.

How AI Ideas Affect the Creativity, Diversity, and Evolution of Human Ideas: Evidence From a Large, Dynamic Experiment

Joshua Ashkinaze, Julia Mendelsohn, Li Qiwei, Ceren Budak, Eric Gilbert

Preprint

How will seeing AI-generated ideas affect human ideas?

Code of Conduct Conversations in Open Source Software Projects on GitHub

Li Qiwei, Pavitthra Pandurangan, Hana Frluckaj, Laura Dabbish

CSCW 21'

This study describes the conversations around adopting and crafting a code of conduct as well as those utilizing code of conduct for community governance.