Video data is widely available but has been difficult to analyze automatically Particularly, TV data is a rich and important source of information for millions. We have a paper at #KDD2024 making such data accessible. Paper: gvrkiran.github.io/content/TV_Deb…

Does ChatGPT discriminate against speakers of different dialects? Our #EMNLP2024 paper finds that ChatGPT exhibits consistent and pervasive biases against non-“standard” varieties of English.🧵 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.08818 Read more in our BAIR blog post: bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2024/09/2…

We are looking for a student to assist our team in using AI to detect toxic content on social media. If you are familiar with Python, study in the Munich area, and would like to contribute to applied research on a timely topic, please get in contact! job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/917…

🚨Out in Nature!🚨 Many (eg Trump JimJordan Elon Musk) have accused social media of anti-conservative bias Is this accurate? We test empirically - and it's more complicated than you might think: conservatives ARE suspended more, but also share more misinfo nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our #hatespeech supersets, combining all 🤬 corpora in 8 lang, reached 2K downloads on 🤗🎉 To enable more cross-cultural 🤬 research, we release: - author country for English, Arabic and Spanish posts from our Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms 📜 - 3 country sets 🇮🇳🇳🇬🇰🇪 huggingface.co/collections/ma…

🥳We are excited to share that WOAH 2025, our 9th edition, will take place at #ACL2025 in Vienna! ACL 2025 Our special theme this year will be "Harms Beyond Hate Speech". CfP and more details soon 🚀

I'm creating a 🦋 starter pack for researchers working on (fighting) online harms, if you would like to be added send along your username 🤓 🦋 go.bsky.app/2hJFNQb #NLProc #HateSpeech Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms

New blog! Oxford Internet Institute doctoral researchers Diyi Liu Manuel Tonneau and Juliette Zaccour propose a series of recommendations for effective data access and data governance in light of the EU’s Digital Service Act. Read the full article: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/oi…

🚨New article🚨 We explore the potential of popular chatbots to detect misinformation & propose a new conceptual framework for automated veracity identification. @makhortykhmykola Victoria Vziatysheva Martha Stolze Aleksandra Urman link.springer.com/article/10.100…🧵👇

🚨 New preprint on AI persuasion and public health 🚨 A 3-min conversation with GPT-4o nudged HPV-vax-hesitant parents (who obv knew it was AI & consented!)—BUT reading standard public-health material still outperformed chatbots in impact and longevity. Details below 👇

🚨 New study! We tested whether AI-generated messages – single static messages vs. conversations – can boost intent to screen for colorectal cancer. Turns out: short, tailored AI messages outperform expert-written materials & match conversations, at a fraction of the time! 🧵👇

Congratulations to Manuel Tonneau and co-authors on our paper receiving an Outstanding Paper Award ACL 2025 . Read it here: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.…

Congratulations to OII researcher Manuel Tonneau for receiving an Outstanding Paper Award at #ACL2025! Manuel’s research explores hate speech detection models and their effectiveness for online content moderation.