Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online
A Brazilian team used Discord's API to scrape 10% of its open servers. — Researchers published a massive database … Bluesky: @vortexegg.com , @cfiesler , and @josephcox Bluesky: ...
A look at Dustin Moskovitz's Open Philanthropy, which has spent ~$500M on student scholarships and more at Stanford and other universities to fight rogue AI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Mastodon: Baldur Bjarnason / @baldur@toot.cafe : “How elite schools like Stanford became fixated on the AI apocalypse: A billionaire-backed move...
Framing AI debates as a schism between people worried about AI going rogue and those illuminating actual harms is ahistorical and obscures important research
In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot … Bluesky: @abeba.bsky.social , @mmitchell.bsky.soc...
While OpenAI has become more upfront about ChatGPT's limitations, the company should do more to make clear the bot can't reliably distinguish fact from fiction
“May occasionally generate incorrect information.” — This is the warning OpenAI pins to the homepage of its AI chatbot ChatGPT …
Lower-income US students feel they are at a disadvantage when pursuing Big Tech internships, as the selection process exhibits longstanding inequities in hiring
Critics say the intern selection process often favors wealthier students, just like the admission process at some elite colleges. LinkedIn: Judith Spitz , Ruthe Farmer , and Michae...
Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor
The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence
An artist using Midjourney to create AI-generated art won first place at Colorado State Fair's fine arts competition, leading to criticism by other artists
Galaxia Phantom, M74, se află la 32 de milioane de ani-lumină … Anna Lynn Winfrey / Pueblo Chiefton : ‘Someone had to be first’: Pueblo artist criticized after AI painting wins at ...
TikTok says it is removing “alarmist warnings” about a supposed day of school violence that prompted some US districts to cancel classes on Friday
Kim Lyons / The Verge :
TikTok says it is removing “alarmist warnings” about a supposed day of school violence that prompted some US districts to cancel classes on Friday
It hasn't found any videos threatening school violence on Friday, the company said — TikTok said Friday that it's working to remove …
Scammers are abusing Instagram's protections against self-harm and impersonation to purposefully target and ban Instagram accounts, some charging $60 per ban
Substack's decision to pay certain writers to write on the platform is an editorial one as leaders decide what kind of writing they want to support
and do this instead Tweets: @annaleen : Here's why Substack's scam worked so well. They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletters seem lucrative. In my newsletter this wee...
Substack's decision to pay certain writers to write on the platform is an editorial one as leaders decide what kind of writing they want to support
They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative — I think of myself as having decent critical faculties … Tweets: @annaleen , @jason , @jefferson...
Substack shares details on its Pro program after criticism, saying 30+ writers with a “diverse set of viewpoints” have signed up, none of whom are anti-trans
a publisher, not a platform—but claims not to be one, which is a pretty shady dodge. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : It'd be nice to see all t...
A look at the key social media feedback loops that help Trump, where his high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers push messages both to and from him
Sources: Facebook skirted its own rules to give conservatives, including a pro-Trump super PAC and Donald Trump Jr., preferential treatment on rules enforcement
From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president's eldest son, conservatives have blown past Facebook's fact-checking guardrails, with few consequences.
Facebook says it will stop accepting new political ads a week before the US presidential election, as part of steps to protect against election interference
Striking a compromise to prevent election misinformation — Facebook will stop taking new political advertising in the United States …
Facebook says it will limit message forwarding on Messenger to five people or groups at a time to tackle the spread of misinformation
and they need to do more than make small, performative tweaks. https://www.nytimes.com/... Tom Reynolds / @tomhreynolds : @MikeIsaac Here is one of the new labels we are rolling ou...
Pupils and teachers question the new grading algorithm used by the IB Diploma Programme to predict student scores after it canceled in-person tests this spring
Tom Simonite / Wired :
Pupils and teachers question the new grading algorithm used by the IB Diploma Programme to predict student scores after it canceled in-person tests this spring
The International Baccalaureate program canceled its high-stakes exam because of Covid-19. The formula it used to “predict” scores puzzles students and teachers.
Several Facebook groups are grappling with inadequate and uneven moderation policies as members attempt to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement
offline and online — are burning and crumbling, whether you like it or not https://twitter.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : the fascinating thing about this is that Facebook's mo...