@evanup.bsky.social
CS PhD student at CMU. geometric deep learning | network science | reliability detection
Reposting for the #ic2s2 crowd!
20.07.2025 20:28 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Just gave a talk about Dredge Wordsโqueries for which unreliable domains rank highly #icwsm2025
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Excited to have two workshop papers and one main conference paper that I've been involved in being presented at @icwsm.bsky.social! Thanks @kingcatherine.bsky.social and @evanup.bsky.social for letting me tag along. Details below.
24.06.2025 09:10 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Another chapter in AI biting the hand that feeds it: Wikipediaโs bandwidth surged 50% since January thanks to AI crawlers.
Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience.
A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
@evanup.bsky.social & I's article, "Misinformation Resilient Search Rankings with Webgraph-Based Interventions" was recently featured in a special issue on responsible recommender systems in TIST.
Sharing it here instead of on X for... reasons.
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
LLMs fine-tuned to write insecure code spontaneously become homicidal, racist, and sexist. Cool paper. #MLSky
martins1612.github.io/emergent_mis...
We used domain-level reliability scores from Lin et al.โs paper below (excluding social media sites). We averaged these scores over SERPs. Itโs imperfect and coarse-grained, but gives a general idea of SERP reliability:
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
An article covering our most recent paper on Googleโs explicit content moderation :)
25.02.2025 02:54 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Now live: โHow alt-tech users evaluate search engines: Cause-advancing auditsโ by Evan M. Williams and Kathleen M. Carley. @evanup.bsky.social misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/how-...
11.02.2025 21:18 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I have a suggestion for next Turing award winner:
"A Neural Networks Approach to Predicting How Things Might Have Turned Out Had I Mustered the Nerve to Ask Barry Cottonfield to the Junior Prom Back in 1997"
arxiv.org/pdf/1703.104...
โAlong with the subheads, weโll add a table of contents to the top of articles so each section becomes a link that can drive traffic on its own. โ A blog post on a fake lizard site is chopped in the subheads with keyword crammed writing that mirrors People Also Ask sections in Search.
โWeโre also adding significantly more professional background details. Weโre going to round up how long weโve been writing about reptiles โ itโs mostly true. Can Google even tell? โ An author bio section shows a longer blurb about experience, targeting Googleโs EEAT guidelines.
โOur lizard blog doesnโt look much like what we started out with, but it probably resembles hundreds of sites youโve seen before.โ Shows the contrast between the website before SEO took over and after.
New from me: I wrote about how search algorithms have created a web full of content and words for Google, not humans. We made a fake lizard website to show you what has happened over 25 yrs.
The visuals are beautiful. Iโm so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
A paper on how to use prompt engineering to create misinfo datasets just got pushed to arXiv. Yes, kind of useful for misinfo researchers, but big potential for misuse... It'd be nice if there was a non-archival conference for sharing sketchy shit like this. #LLMs #ML arxiv.org/abs/2401.04481
12.01.2024 17:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Nice prompt engineering principles table from arxiv.org/pdf/2312.161...
Does bluesky use hashtags?
#ML #LLMs #NLP
