⚡️Job alert ⚡️

2-year postdoc position, part of my PRODIGI
project IPZ - Political Science UZH

> Digital tech & politics
> Causal inference or computational social science
> PhD completed or close to completion
> Starting Jan 2024 (or later)

Happy to answer any Qs!

fabriziogilardi.org/resources/jobs…

Very happy that our paper 'ChatGPT outperforms crowd workers for text-annotation tasks' is now out at PNASNews 😀

with Meysam Alizadeh & Maël Kubli

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

#ChatGPT #LLMs

Check out our new paper looking at open-source #LLMs for annotation tasks!

Together with Meysam Alizadeh Fabrizio Gilardi et al.

⚡️ New paper ⚡️

'Open-source LLMs such as HuggingChat and FLAN exhibit text-annotation performance metrics that generally exceed those of MTurk and rival those of ChatGPT'

with meysam alizadeh @maelkubli et al.

arxiv.org/abs/2307.02179

#ChatGPT #LLMs #OpenSource #NLP

🚨 New Pre-print! 🚨 psyarxiv.com/zmpdu

Do interventions against #misinformation help, or do they come with undesired effects by increasing skepticism in otherwise trusted pieces of information?

Both! Our findings suggest current strategies require substantive changes 🤯

Can ChatGPT be leveraged to assist fact-checking efforts? Yes! We find that ChatGPT accurately categorizes 12.000 fact-checked statements in 72% of cases. It is better at identifying true claims (80%) than false claims (67%).

Sacha Altay Fabrizio Gilardi AI, Media & Democracy | @[email protected]

ChatGPT Can Replace the Underpaid Workers Who Train AI, Researchers Say

VICE article on our work on #ChatGPT annotation capabilities Meysam Alizadeh Maël Kubli

vice.com/en/article/ak3…

👉New Scientist report on our work on #ChatGPT annotation capabilities Meysam Alizadeh Maël Kubli

newscientist.com/article/236697…

ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks

with Meysam Alizadeh Maël Kubli

We find that zero-shot #ChatGPT :
> has better accuracy than #MTurk
> has better intercoder agreement than MTurk and trained coders
> is 20x cheaper than MTurk

arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056

The LSE Government Political Behaviour is excited to welcome Fabrizio Gilardi today!

Join for his talk on “Problem Definition in the Digital Democracy” *4-5 pm London time* (in-person or online) @LSENews

a big thank you to my wonderful colleagues IPZ - Political Science UZH PRODIGI & beyond for supporting me in this transition - it's been a joy working alongside you all.

more soon!

For the area of 'digitalization', Emma Hoes brilliantly presented her research on the responsiveness of social media platforms to media reporting on them, as well as on the effects on user behavior of monetization of social media content. IPZ - Political Science UZH

“political speech is ineligible for fact-checking. This includes the words a politician says as well as photo, video, or other content that is clearly labeled as created by the politician or their campaign.”cnn.com/2022/11/15/pol…

Our new preprint is out!

Monetization of social media engagements increases the sharing of false (and other) news but penalization moderates it

New PRODIGI paper, together with Meysam Alizadeh (lead author) and Emma Hoes

osf.io/har52/

Well let’s give this a try shall we mastodon.online/@emmahoes

3+ weeks until the deadline, but it's never too soon to apply, and never too late to share!

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Pre-weekend bump for this job opening 🤗

Universität Wien Also, on Monday at 5pm I will give a talk on PRODIGI staatswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/news-detailans…