I think a lot of the backlash about social media datasets is because people never hear about cool things that regular researchers create or discover. The only thing we see is billionaires selling us blurry reflections of own work. - ThreadSky

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dmimno.bsky.social • 150 days ago

I think a lot of the backlash about social media datasets is because people never hear about cool things that regular researchers create or discover. The only thing we see is billionaires selling us blurry reflections of own work.

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dmimno.bsky.social•150 days ago

When we contact post authors to ask if we can spotlight their work in research papers (sometimes as paraphrases), they’re often excited to hear that someone remembers their work

miaout.bsky.social•150 days ago

I think people feel very differently about their work and their personal posts. Consent and foreknowledge is obviously also very important, but fundamentally a photo of a bird used for a known purpose is different than the unknown uses of posts you suspect could be embarrassing in some lights

ngutten.bsky.social•150 days ago

I think its a lot simpler. Everything is neat funny stuff that weird people are doing that are safe to ignore until it threatens you personally in some way. Once that's happened, no amount of neat funny stuff that weird people do is going to make you forget the thing you were threatened by.

ngutten.bsky.social•150 days ago

That could be seeing a fall-off in commissions. Or having your boss tell you you have to go learn this AI tool to keep your job (and 20% will lose their job regardless). Or finding your favorite search engine useless because of AI blogspam. Or hearing that targeted political ads shaped the election.

ngutten.bsky.social•150 days ago

If robust enough protections are in place for people to be safe against abuse by people wielding AI then I think you can start to untangle the knee-jerk anti-anything-AI reactions.

Which IMO requires something substantively empowering like UBI, not nice-sounding promises that prove unenforceable.

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