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DEADLINE EXTENDED to Feb 27 (AoE) for our #CHI2025 workshop on #news, #democracy, and the role of #HCI, submit to share your work and brainstorm with researchers and media practitioners about the ways in which HCI can enable production of and access to trustworthy news and info!

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DEADLINE EXTENDED to Feb 27 (AoE) for our #CHI2025 workshop on #news, #democracy, and the role of #HCI, submit to share your work and brainstorm with researchers and media practitioners about the ways in which HCI can enable production of and access to trustworthy news and info!

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A couple weeks ago, I published a story on a network of AI-generated local newsletters quietly operating in 47 states across the U.S. Today, @niemanlab.org published a database of all the Good Daily newsletters we've identified so far –– over 300 of them. www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/the-...

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I tried something! Let me know if this works for you. This is a handbuilt list of journalists, academics, industry figures, activists et al on Bluesky who are focused on tech — especially online platforms, social media and AI. Click "Pin to Home" if you find it worthwhile: bsky.app/profile/will...

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

do you study how technology can reshape the #news and information ecosystem? attending #CHI2025? submit to our workshop! we're welcoming a range of themes: #misinformation and trust on social platforms, access to civic information, #AI in newsrooms, citizen journalism, and so on! find more below!

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sometimes when i'm writing a sentence i really like it feels like i'm playing the piano

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

Remember this @neuripsconf.bsky.social workshop paper? We spent the past month writing a newer, better, longer version!!! You can find it online here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00561

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Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but pushing it -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

submitted 30 days ago • 31 comments

Incredibly amped to co-organize this #CHI2025 workshop on the future of news and HCI 📰📺🌐 Join us in exploring how HCI can support the production, verification and dissemination of trustworthy news in a changing world! 🔗 Details: sites.google.com/view/newsfut... ⏳ Deadline: Feb 20, 2025 (AoE)

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hi, i wrote a post - "Defining AI". ali-alkhatib.com/blog/definin...

submitted 82 days ago • 41 comments

I despair of this field every time a tech person tells me that A.I. is "better than nothing" for low-income and/or underserved people. How about we try to get people the resources they need instead of the ones we can make money providing?

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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

submitted 91 days ago • 63 comments

Seeing cool works on metrology and measurement modeling for NLP! So I wanted to port over the thread our ACL 2023 Findings paper (arxiv.org/abs/2305.09022) on conceptualizations of NLP tasks and measurements of performance! Work with Eric Yuan, @haldaume3.bsky.social, and Su Lin Blodgett. (1/n)

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was mildly obsessed with this genre of ad all summer and took a bunch of photos for giggles. I feel they exemplify well this idea of "AI as floating signifier" from Suchman (2023), since they "suggest[s] a specific referent but work[s] to escape definition in order to maximize its suggestive power"

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If you're an artist annoyed at how AI is always represented in the media as godlike robots typing at desks and want to create more critical visions, the AIxDesign community & Better Images of AI just shared a guide for using commons-licensed archival images responsibly. aixdesign.co/posts/archiv...

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This was published while I was at the National Assembly so I never really got a chance to promote it, which is kind of insane? It's one of the best features that The Verge has ever published. When I first read the draft I went "what the fuck did I just read??????" www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

submitted 84 days ago • 41 comments

Feel like "fix the motion smoothing" should be replaced by "explain that ChatGPT isn't a search engine" when going home for the holidays now

submitted 84 days ago • 21 comments

PSA, your local post office probably has Ursula K LeGuin stamps or you can order them by mail.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

once again @reckless.bsky.social has trolled me into blogging www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/2...

submitted 93 days ago • 49 comments

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:

submitted 95 days ago • 21 comments

The best writers in the world. go.bsky.app/8fxDPpA

submitted 104 days ago • 10 comments

I love how I just discovered I have a folder called "READ NOW!!!!" and I just scroll pass it. Untouched since October last year 🤣

submitted 105 days ago • 3 comments

as is now tradition @sachnishal.bsky.social and I are organizing a small meetup for researchers & practitioners working on HCI, news & democracy at #CSCW2024! join us for an informal lunch on 12 November (Tue) in-person at CSCW. rsvp: forms.gle/fQWhvJgvAQtp...

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Earlier this year, I decided to try tracing character journeys from each Sherlock Holmes story on London's 1893 Ordnance Survey #maps. It's great fun. As the street structure has remained largely the same, you can sometimes use ORS tools for routing between points. This one's the Red Headed League.

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Have finally coded a Small Language model. Responds to any input with “wow, that’s a lot of words” and then shuts down

submitted 185 days ago • 53 comments

📣 Attention freelance science & tech journalists! 🔬🧪💻 We're recruiting participants for a study about how generative AI could reshape journalists' work. Join us for a 60-80 mins interview and share your thoughts on generative AI tools that can support pitch writing! (1/3)

submitted 189 days ago • 1 comment

My latest at @flaminghydra.com —for our "Lost Internet" series—is a meditation on the zen of Zombocom:

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📣 Attention freelance science & tech journalists! 🔬🧪💻 We're recruiting participants for a study about how generative AI could reshape journalists' work. Join us for a 60-80 mins interview and share your thoughts on generative AI tools that can support pitch writing! (1/3)

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Taylorism is a management philosophy based on using scientific optimization to maximize labor productivity and economic efficiency. Here's the result of making the false Taylorist assumption that the output of scientific research is scientific papers—the more, faster, and cheaper, the better.

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Rob Horning is such a great resource for making sense of what is happening with technology. This is a great piece on the tendency to add an AI generated chatbot to every website and the dream, or nightmare, of replacing human contact with AI "friends." open.substack.com/pub/robhorni...

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Indignity Vol. 4, No. 129, FAN SERVICE JOURNALISM DEP'T.: What Retread Marvel Actor Should Play the Best Supervillain of All? www.indignity.net/doom-loop/

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Poetry is weirdly prominent in LLM conversations. But what do models really "know" about poetry? We tested how well LLMs can recognize 20+ poetic forms in English & probed major pretraining datasets to see which poems might be memorized. New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2406.18906

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Hmmmm.

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Hacks is a great comedy series that is going to lose Best Comedy to a drama (The Bear) that evades classification as a drama because it would lose Best Drama to Shōgun, a limited series that won't compete for Best Limited Series so that Fargo, a comedy series, has a chance there. Enjoy the Emmys!

submitted 265 days ago • 30 comments

This is a great article pushing back on the trendy “misinformation panic is over” frame/argument. Most interestingly, it argues the recent Nature piece about elites and traditional media being more influential than social media overlooks the influence of social media on elites and traditional media.

submitted 264 days ago • 4 comments

I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder... For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con...

submitted 294 days ago • 46 comments

Ever stood in front of a historical markers and wondered, “Is this true?” Well, so did we. We spent a year analyzing the nation’s markers and found stories that were sometimes delightful, sometimes humorous, and sometimes completely wrong.

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