GenAI education discourse on Reddit spans 17 themes across 5 clusters, with Academic Integrity the largest at 37.1% of records¶

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q2 i? LDA topic modelling of 270k AI-related education Reddit records yields 17 themes grouped into 5 clusters, with the Academic Integrity cluster accounting for 37.1% of all records. → Pelin Yüce 2026

Evidence¶

Pelin Yüce 2026¶

Pelin Yüce, Xiangruo Dai, Rebecca Owens, Tuğrulcan Elmas. (2026). ChatGPT vs Teachers vs Students: Large-Scale Analysis of Generative AI Discourse in Education Communities on Reddit. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17712 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.17712

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Topic modelling of 270,929 AI-filtered Reddit records from 26 education subreddits (Nov 2022–Apr 2026) using Gensim LDA with K=18 topics (TC=0.528, TQ=0.509), manually labelled and grouped into 5 clusters. The Academic Integrity cluster is "the largest cluster, accounting for more than a third of all AI-related records".

"The largest cluster, accounting for more than a third of all AI-related records, spans the full detection–enforcement–evasion cycle."

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