kristinalerman.bsky.social
Senior Principal Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute. Using data, networks and AI to better understand social groups.
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Or maybe it can actually save the democracy.
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Kind of in agreement. But I claim that genAI will survive even without copyrighted content.
How did the lawsuit by copyright holders against Google Books end? I stopped following it years ago.
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I agree with you. My point is that genAI can survive and flourish even without copyrighted content.
My second point is that we have gone through the handwringing before. Artists (photographers) insisted that platform like Flickr were ruining their business. The platforms survived. Artists adapted.
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Who needs copyright holders? In the “Flickr days”, lots of amateurs were willing to give their work away for free. I am sure that now many people are willing to give their writing away for free, and do so on a regular basis (hello bloggers). We have had this debate before.
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Speak for yourself. I did not like getting lost.
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And yet, the genie is out it the bottle and we teachers need to stop kvetching and start adapting. My take, instead of writing we need to teach close reading skills.
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I really don’t like the “stolen work” framing. It reminds me of my Flickr days where professional photographers complained about amateurs willing to give their work away for “free”. Would your distaste for genAI disappear if they only used Wikipedia and works in the public domain?
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I can see your point. How do we capture the concept that not all false claims are equally bad, that some are malicious
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Unfortunately they did not find my name tag, but (to make me easier to spot) I am wearing white shirt and carrying a black bag.
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I am an NetSci too - just for a day (actually half a day - at the Fairness in Networks satellite). Should stop by say hi.
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Misinformation science needs a new framing. Misinfo by itself is not bad (eg, parents encourage false belief in Santa Claus). Instead, misinfo designed to manipulate behavior is bad - but why not call it propaganda instead?
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Another week another deadly antisemitic attack. I blame the antizionist rhetoric pervasive in our society, and especially on college campuses and college towns (like Boulder), for enabling it.
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This has been debunked. And sorry, did not take place in Gaza as you claimed.
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Last one. I promise.
globalnews.ca/news/1119611...
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If I were an evil dictator bent on increasing my empire (and god knows we have plenty of them)I would use this opportunity to my advantage.
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@bsky.app we need an Edit button
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The fact that Speaker of the House, one of the 2 branches of government serving as checks and balances on the House executive branch has not heard about this is preposterous. Mike is simply ashamed.
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www.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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Amazing. You don’t know what happened on Oct 7
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I think he means “turn the economy around” from prosperity to depression.
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Funny. I make the same argument to people who tell me the pro-Palestinian protests can’t possibly be antisemitic because there are a few Jews among them.
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Master and Margarita fan?
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My mistake. I thought we were talking about antizionist rhetoric contributing to the shooting attack.
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If you believe that the RW media ecosystem created conditions for lone wolf attacks, then why don’t you believe that the left wing media/rhetoric created conditions for this antizionist attack?
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That was my take. We understand the structural factors that give rise to extreme violence on the right, and we blame their information ecosystem for creating these conditions. How is it not the same?
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I understood. I was mostly thinking about the campus environment for Jews in US right now. Jewish students have been experiencing the brunt of that anger as harassment, exclusion, vandalism. Yet people refuse to recognize that as antisemitism, which drives me bonkers.
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And Steve, I did not mean you in particular. Lol
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No need to blame foreign students. There are already plenty of people in this country ready to hate Jews.
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Remember when people were upset with China for letting the corona virus loose? Somehow we understood well enough that yelling at Chinese students in US about that constituted hate speech.
Why not apply the same standards to Jews?
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You can hate Israel and what it is doing. But how does that justify yelling at some random Jewish kids at Columbia or UCLA.
Fine, even if they are “Zionists”, ie, believe that Israel should exist.
If you think it ok to harass Jews for Israel’s actions, then maybe you are an antisemite.
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Bye
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I can spam you with more links but here is one. Note how the comments all say Israel was culpable/responsible for the killings, because Gaza. You’d never say the death of Chicago boy or shooting of 3 college students in Vermont was justified because of Hamas or 10/7
www.threads.com/@oni.xxkayxx...
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There are worse things than gefilte fish. Have you even smelled surstroming? Lutefisk? Yet people are not hating on Swedes.
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2/ The post I linked is not political, posted by a non-Jew and getting hateful engagement. People cannot bear Jews being victimized - you saw that in tearing down hostages posters. Fine, don’t call it antisemitism- call is Jew-hate.
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As evidence, I urge you to read the comments on any post about the killings. You see blantant disregard for Jewish life: denial (it was a false flag op), minimizing (he was not even Jewish); celebration (good!); and many “Free Palestine” calls.
Ex: eyewitness report
www.threads.com/@lovelyluchi...
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I have not seen anyone being accused of antisemitism simply for condemning the war in Gaza.
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You are correct. US, and especially Harvard, create a brain drain for the world by attracting the best and the brightest from other countries. (Not anymore)
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The headline sounded wacky. Sure enough- it’s totally fabricated. You’ve been had! 😂
www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...
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Nice try. I am Ashkenazi, and even I abhor gefilte fish
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Just click on any post taking about the murders and read the comments. You will quickly find people calling for an end to Israel.
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My family used Food Stamps too. It was the reason I did not go to bed hungry as a kid.