Aurélie Petit is the Scotiabank Doctoral Fellow in AI and Inclusion at the University of Ottawa AI + Society Initiative.
During her time at the AI + Society Initiative, Aurélie Petit will work on the ethics of AI-assisted/deepfake pornography with Jason Millar and the CRAiEDL team. Throughout the Summer of 2023, she will also work as an intern with Tarleton Gillespie at the Social Media Collective in Microsoft Research (Cambridge, MA) to examine the limits of automated content moderation on adult-content platforms, in particular as it relates to the unique challenges of animation.
Aurélie Petit (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Film and Moving Image Studies program at Concordia University, Montreal. Her dissertation examines the relationship between reactionary online cultures and Japanese animation in the United States, with a focus on exclusionary discourses towards marginalized communities. Stemming from this project, she is now looking into the circulation of pornographic animation on streaming platforms.