I am planning an online survey, and I would like to include a question to detect obvious AI bots. I was thinking about questions like: What is the name of your childhood best friend? What is your favorite color? Any experiences with questions like this? Do they help at all?

Hendrik Heuer This paper tests the efficacy of a number of strategies ranging from attention checks to more sophisticated approaches 👉 dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114… Though I've seen free-text survey responses that look suspiciously like they were generated by LLMs, and that's a different beast

New The New York Times Hard Fork visuals are finally here! So happy to see them in action 💛 Sound on 🔊 to also enjoy their sound design Font used: Pixel Dingbats Kevin Roose Casey Newton

📢Following our recent nature piece, we are back in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications with an in-depth rebuttal of critiques of misinformation research: LIARS KNOW THEY ARE LYING: disagreement is fine, DISINFO is not. We know lies & democracy depends on calling them out! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Additional link: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Join our (Guo Freeman, Kathrin Gerling, Daniel Johnson, Dr. Regan Mandryk (Regan on 🦣)) workshop at ACM CHI PLAY: "Building Creative Strategies and Solutions to Promote Benefits While Mitigating Harms of Video Games"! Submit a short position statement by August 29, 2024! sites.google.com/view/chiplay-2…

Gefälschte Nachrichtenseiten, gezielte Falschmeldungen – die Desinformationskampagne „Doppelgänger“ zeigt, wie wichtig es ist, Medienquellen kritisch zu hinterfragen. 👇

🚨 !Job Alert! 🚨 As part of the DFG research unit "Communicative AI", we are hiring a PhD student (100%, TV-L 13, 4y). Interested in political deliberation, social media, comp. methods and AI? Have a look. Research Unit: comai.space/jobs.html Job Ad: comai.space/flyers//Stelle…

🌟 Our short paper #DesignFrictions on #SocialMedia: Balancing Reduced Mindless Scrolling and User Satisfaction by Nicolas Ruiz CAIS NRW & Uni Bremen, Gabriela Molina León Uni Bremen, & myself CAIS NRW Bergische Universität Wuppertal just won Best Short Paper Award Mensch und Computer!🏆🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.18803

🇬🇧 Congratulations to Nicolas Ruiz, Gabriela Molina León, and Hendrik Heuer for the Best Short Paper Award for their paper, "Design Frictions on Social Media: Balancing Reduced Mindless Scrolling and User Satisfaction" 🎉!

🎉 Are you near #Bochum and interested in #digitalization 🚀? Visit CAIS NRW's #PressPlay2024 festival to explore #AI, #misinformation, and #socialNetworks 🤖✨ 📅 October 11th, KoFabrik, Bochum 🎟️ It’s free! 🔗 cais-research.de/press-play-202… #rpHH #rp25 #rp24 #37c3 #38c3

.QMUL Electronic Engineering and Computer Science is hiring

Deadline next Monday

Computers have become too hard to use. We found that intelligence (IQ) is a significant predictor of people's ability to complete everyday tasks like inserting page numbers to a Word doc. This contrasts the view that success is just about experience. And that's bad news: 🧵

The IJHCS paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Data and scripts: osf.io/p9fch/ Our press release: aalto.fi/en/news/strugg…

I am stoked that European Research Council (ERC) is funding my research on Designing Social Media Recommendation Algorithms for Societal Good (DeSiRe)! With a team of researchers working with me Uni Graz/University of Graz we will try to figure out how to make social media better. What are we going to do? 🧵 1/14

*Very* excited for this paper-led by amazing Cameron Martel (on the job market!)-to be out. He validates a scale for trust in fact-checkers & presents experiments w 14k subjects showing that fact-checker warnings reduce misinfo belief + sharing even among those low in trust!

We at CAIS NRW are looking for a new "Kaufmännische Geschäftsführung" (Director of Business Administration). Do you know someone in the #Bochum area (or beyond!) who would be a perfect fit? Help us spread the word and share this job ad! 🗣️💼 stellenangebote.cais-research.de/en?id=3fd6e8

📢Wir suchen eine neue kaufmännische Geschäftsführung zum 1.12.2024! Jetzt bewerben: stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=3fd6e8 #TeamCAIS

I've used Google's #NotebookLM to generate a podcast for our #CHI2024 paper on writer-defined AI personas. The result is quite impressive - have a listen to the first 90 seconds here! 🎶 Short analysis & links in the 🧵below. Karim Benharrak Florian Lehmann Hendrik Heuer