Laura Wagner

Laura Wagner is a researcher at the University of Zurich's Department of Art History, specializing in digital humanities and AI ethics. Her work investigates the societal implications of personalized, open-source text-to-image/video generative AI models, particularly focusing on systemic issues like unlicensed or violent material appropriation in multimodal AI systems and their cascading effects on user communities.

Her research interests include:

• Digital Humanities
• Text-to-image Model Personalizations
• AI Ethics

Wagner is currently involved in the research project The Canon of Latent Spaces: How Large AI Models Encode Art and Culture under Dr. Eva Cetinić. She previously contributed to the KITeGG project, which explores cultural heritage and AI. Her work bridges art history, generative AI, and ethical frameworks for AI deployment.

Her notable publication includes a workshop paper at the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), titled Civiverse: A Dataset for Analyzing User Engagement with Open-Source Text-to-Image Models, which addresses user interactions with generative AI systems.