@inproceedings{longo-longo-2025-ai,
    title = "No {AI} on a Dead Planet: {Sentiment} and Emotion Analysis Across {R}eddit Communities on {AI} and the Environment",
    author = "Longo, Arianna  and
      Longo, Alessandro Y.",
    editor = "Basile, Valerio  and
      Bosco, Cristina  and
      Grasso, Francesca  and
      Ibrohim, Muhammad Okky  and
      Skeppstedt, Maria  and
      Stede, Manfred",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing (NLP4Ecology2025)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Tallinn, Estonia",
    publisher = "University of Tartu Library",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.nlp4ecology-1.17/",
    pages = "77--83",
    ISBN = "978-9908-53-114-4",
    abstract = "This paper investigates how different online communities perceive and discuss the environmental impact of AI through sentiment analysis and emotion detection. We analyze Reddit discussion from r/artificial and r/climatechange, using pre-trained models fine-tuned on social media data. Our analysis reveals distinct patterns in how these communities engage with AI{'}s environmental implications: the AI community demonstrates a shift from predominantly neutral and positive sentiment in posts to more balanced perspectives in comments, while the climate community maintains a more critical stance throughout discussions. The findings contribute to our understanding of how different communities conceptualize and respond to the environmental challenges of AI development."
}