Woohyeuk Kevin Lee
PhD student, School of Information
The University of Texas at Austin
woohyeuk.lee@utexas.edu
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About
I'm a PhD student at UT-Austin in the iSchool and am grateful to be advised by David Gray Widder.
I am interested how peer production can be mobilized as a counterforce against centralization of AI development.
Selected work
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Open AI in the Wild: Adoption and Adaptation of Open Models on r/LocalLLaMA
Woohyeuk Lee, James Howison, Min Kyung Lee, Hanlin Li. FAccT 2026. Paper -
Reimagining Open Source and Openness in AI: Co-Creating Responsible Technological Futures
Genevieve Smith, Hiral Patel, Steven Luo, …, Woohyeuk Lee, …, David Gray Widder. FAccT 2026. Paper -
Open at the Edge, Captured at the Center: llama.cpp and the Political Economy of Local AI Inference
Woohyeuk Lee, Hanlin Li, David Gray Widder. Preprint. arXiv
Work in progress
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Little of What Preference Data Says About a Person Is Personal
Woohyeuk Lee, David Gray Widder. PDF -
Why There Is No Wikipedia for Alignment
Woohyeuk Lee. PDF