Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce “partisan animosity”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/ ... Mike Jay M / @mikejay.link : Evidence suggests that being on X and using the “For You” feed can rapidly cause political polarisation. — And political parties believe...
Researchers claim that 2,107 US voters, mostly older, white Republican women, accounted for spreading 80% of the fake news on Twitter during the 2020 election
A pair of studies published Thursday in the journal Science offers evidence not only that misinformation on social media changes minds …
In a spat on X, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun calls out Elon Musk for saying xAI will pursue “truth” as Musk spreads “crazy-ass conspiracy theories” on X
But It Does Have Privacy Issues Emergent Behavior : 2024-05-29: Memorial Day Shenanigans Siddharth Jindal / AIM : Yann LeCun Delays Elon Musk's AGI Plans James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Elon Musk and M...
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media feed algorithms aff...
Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @drtechlash , @johncoogan , @alexstamos , @zo...
Study says LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 20M users from 2015 to 2019, may have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @joshelman , @martinsfp , @ca...
Scientists criticize a lack of transparency in AI research, citing issues of replication in research and unequal access to code, proprietary data, and hardware
with dangerous consequences. Replication by different researchers would expose problems sooner, making AI stronger for everyone” #NLProc stop publishing what is not replicable https://www.technologyre...
Scientists criticize a lack of transparency in AI research, citing issues of replication in research and unequal access to code, proprietary data, and hardware
Tech giants dominate research but the line between real breakthrough and product showcase can be fuzzy. Some scientists have had enough. Tweets: @techreview , @techreview , @techreview , @techreview ...
Researchers: 60% of Americans of European descent can be identified via public DNA databases, regardless of whether they've submitted their own DNA data or not
Once 3 million Americans have uploaded their genomes to public genealogy websites, nearly everyone in US is identifiable by their DNA and a few additional clues http://www.latimes.com/... @latimes : O...
Facebook's news polarization study is flawed because it only counted users self-reporting their ideological affiliation
The Facebook “It's Not Our Fault” Study — Today in Science, members of the Facebook data science team released a provocative study about adult Facebook users in the US …