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Accurate but unrepresentative information is the norm in mainstream media: conspicuouscognition.com/p/did-online-m…

Listen to Garrett Johnson

Terrific to see that these tools (and the dataset) are out! huggingface.co/mlburnham/Poli…

If you just click on the image, your first impression might be that Phil Magness is punching down some high schooler’s poster. But the infographic was printed by… a US senator

Come say hi at 4pm today, and chat about our work with Thomas Zeitzoff if you're around #APSA2024

Open language models are a public good for the discipline. If you'd like to contribute either by helping to create future versions or by sharing data, reach out! I'm at #APSA2024 and would love to chat on or offline.

Unexpectedly running into none other than Harold Pollack in Philadelphia. Technology is good: we’ve been mutuals on Twitter for years but this is our first in-person meet. Conferences like #APSA2024 and Twitter are still complementary goods, not substitutes!

An amazing factoid:

An impressive place

Most Americans are worried about the future of democracy, although less worried than they were 2 years ago. The vast majority of Americans do not think democratic decline is inevitable.

See also Meghan Condon's and AWichowsky's The Economic Other: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Expecting also: “Donald Trump: a great president, or the best president?”

He amplifies misinformation. Says that GPT-4 went to TaskRabbit to hire a person to solve a CAPTCHA and lied about being a robot As Melanie Mitchell helpfully documented in her fact-check: - a human prompter suggested using TaskRabbit - the model didn’t have access to the internet

“political actors routinely fail to understand themselves and their political opponents as making fallible knowledge-claims … Instead, each side in these disputes assumes that their own knowledge-claims are infallible: obviously or self-evidently true.”