Human thought is always embodied & enacted. Data used to train LLM's can't "capture the motivational, participatory, and... social aspects that ground meaning making by people". Abeba Birhane on "Mistaking engineering Achievements for Human Linguistic Agency" theregister.com/2024/08/30/ai_…

"OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the most richly valued artificial intelligence startups, have agreed to let the U.S. AI Safety Institute test their new models before releasing them to the public" #AIEthics cnbc.com/2024/08/29/ope…

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 The Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) is thrilled to announce that the application period for research visits is now officially OPEN! 🚀 Are you working on a project in European law and eager to broaden your research horizons? 🌍 Details below 👇🏻

Rethinking the AI boom, with Daron Acemoğlu ft.com/content/e865a7…

🧑‍⚖️From Financial Times: "AI companies are facing a wave of copyright litigation and accusations that they are aggressively scraping data from the web, a problem exacerbated as start-ups hit a “data frontier” hindering new advances in the technology." ft.com/content/e6a4dc…

A contender for quote of the day: Alexander Lukashenko called on state media officials and managers to create a rolling news TV channel "without any lies" ... ahead of next year's presidential election

Remember that one time TeamYouTube told Charlie they were "not going to die on this hill" for Community Guideline strikes over the infamous spongebob roadrage video? CJ Reynolds and I published a paper on this + how creators make sense of and challenge YouTube policies

This ACM CHI Conference paper interviews over 350 counterspeakers, people who engage in direct responses to hate speech. Participants raised concerns about the authenticity of AI-powered counterspeech. Authors call for AI to facilitate (not automate) counterspeech. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

воувоу, в NYTimes вышла огромная статья про наших дезертиров и Идите лесом мне кажется очень важно рассказывать, что совсем не все россияне поддерживают эту преступную войну. спасибо Саре и вообще всем журналистам, которые транслируют миру цветную, а не черно-белую картинку

🆓Freedom of expression, cyber-libertarianism... Professor Kate Klonick underlines the ♟️Three-Dimensional Chess of Platform Governance. #Durov #Musk 📖An in-depth conversation by C to discover here ↘️ sciencespo.fr/public/chaire-…

Final ad spending & targeting data is now available for Austrian election (up to election day)! On Facebook and Instagram, the far-right and winner of largest share of votes, the FPÖ, has outspend all of their competitors by almost a factor of two. favstats.github.io/nrw24

They aren't quitting science, they're quitting academia.

Our new paper takes you Inside the funhouse mirror factory and explains How social media distorts perceptions of norms 0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news! A tiny proportion of bad actors cause most of the problems and distort the norms. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Via

Is this your first AOIR? Feeling a bit unsure or overwhelmed? We get it—conferences can be intense! Join us for the First Timers meet-up on the first day (Oct 31) in Sheffield; Look out for me & Ludmila Lupinacci - @[email protected], and we’ll help guide you through this experience together #AoIR2024👇🫶💕

Growth vs exclusion I've been living in the US for some time now and I'm trying to wrap my head around the way things are going here. On the one hand, things are going great, in some ways more than great. On the other hand, things are... hellish? Dystopian? A 🧵 1/

More evidence that instead of being passively influenced by misinformation some people actively seek it 🔍 "Overall, it appears that individual choices are driving engagement with unreliable information sources from search, not algorithms." science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Today, an Act harmonising transparency reporting rules under the DSA was adopted. Its uniform templates and reporting periods facilitate the comparability of platforms’ reports on content moderation systems and account terminations: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commis…

Hate saying it but: told you

The rage I feel at the decades of brushing off & downplaying these companies as "social media" & failing to see these private companies for what they were: transnational communications platforms for online speech, a new vector of power, a vacuum waiting for nature to take hold