And ... Eric Gilbert just said the quiet part out loud ... I'm glad #AI is becoming more human-centered, but am concerned that many are 'reinventing the wheel' of #HCI methods, and there is a vocab mismatch between the communities... arxiv.org/pdf/2405.03699

Sara Hooker Ashwinee Panda @ICLR2024 10^26 was originally a passing footnote in this paper, citing Our World in Data arxiv.org/pdf/2307.03718….

10^25 was reportedly a compromise between Parliament, which wanted 10^24, and the Commission, which wanted 10^26.

IMO, different jurisdictions are getting very muddled…

Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slo…

hi! Marianne Aubin Le Quéré and I are organizing a little meetup for researchers & practitioners working on HCI for #journalism & #news at #CHI2024 !

join us for an informal lunch on 14 May (Tue) if you are interested + will be in-person at CHI :)

rsvp here: forms.gle/f7FphGCG925vZf…

Is this the future of journalism?

Last call! Find more for application here: sicss.io/2024/chicago/a…. Come and join us in Chicago this summer!!

The Generative AI in the Newsroom (GAIN) initiative at NU School of Comm Northwestern Medill is looking to hire a postdoc to research, prototype, and evaluate uses of generative AI in news production, with connection to broader ethical, legal, and social implications: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcements/…

#BREAKING : 8 major U.S. newspapers are suing OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement
— On top of a similar case filed by The New York Times against both companies, the new suits add heft to publishers' claims.
— More on Axios:
axios.com/2024/04/30/mic…

NIST challenge to both generate and discriminate synthetic from human-generated content: ai-challenges.nist.gov/genai

We are looking for a PhD candidate to work on language generation in the news domain. Proficiency in Norwegian is not a requirement! Check the details here: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Contact me if you have any questions 😊

Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology
Infomedia_uib
Lilja Øvrelid
Erik Velldal

On May 6, join the Technology & Social Behavior PhD program for their spring colloquium, featuring guest speaker Diyi Yang of Stanford University. Professor Yang will discuss 'Human-AI Interaction in the Age of Large Language Models.'

⏰ 1:30pm
📍 Frances Searle 1-122, Evanston Campus

Meta's new AI chatbot fabricated sexual harassment allegations against multiple state lawmakers – including those who chair committees tasked with regulating AI. cityandstateny.com/politics/2024/…

Hoodline 'is using generative AI for the vast majority of its recent, “originally reported” stories — without clear disclosures to the extent of its use.' sf.gazetteer.co/hoodline-using… -- once they got caught they updated the bylines to look like this:

New blog: Real-world usage of LLMs in Journalism

ehudreiter.com/2024/04/23/usa…

Interesting survey on risks from GenAI in journalism: edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3I…

🏰 Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani.
🕓16:00

Generative AI in the news: one year on

Featuring: Nicholas Diakopoulos | Chris Moran | Felix M. Simon | Agnes Stenbom
journalismfestival.com/programme/2024…

'5% of the stories on Newsweek.com use AI tools for drafting' niemanlab.org/2024/04/inside…

Check out Liyan Tang's great work!

Using very clever synthetic data generation schemes, he trained a very strong fact-checking model, which can get GPT4-level accuracies, while being 400x cheaper.

The model which is on HF will be very useful in RAG/summarization settings.