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Beth Goldberg

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Fan of applied research for gnarly tech policy and product questions | Head of Research at Jigsaw (Google) | Lecturer at Yale Jackson School | Lurking for laughs and spicy discussion sections

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ANNEX 2: Building Open Trust and Safety Tools

Itโ€™s not just bad word lists: Thereโ€™s a massive opportunity to build T&S tools as common goods, in public.

@derekslater.bsky.social @betsym.bsky.social wrote a whole report about this: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/scaling-trust_annex2/

13.07.2023 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 163    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Quote from @maargentino.bsky.social !

14.07.2023 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Facebook banned 'Boogaloo'-related groups โ€” but new research suggests a 'boomerang' effect Members of the loose-knit Boogaloo movement who found each other online joined armed protests against Covid lockdowns.

"it's like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound"

Check out our new research showing a "boomerang" of extremists back after removals

14.07.2023 14:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Yup, terrified about this precedent. @klonick.bsky.social nails how this ruling is "a bellwether of a disconcerting new political tactic: using state and local authorities, along with federal forum- and judge-shopping, to make national internet policy."

13.07.2023 14:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Just a moment...

ok, dial up the AI doom a wee bit, just 3%...

"people were 3% less likely to spot false tweets generated by AI than those written by humans"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh1850

13.07.2023 00:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Humans may be more likely to believe disinformation generated by AI The way AI models structure text may have something to do with it, according to the study authors.

โ€œJust because AI makes it easier to write a tweet that might be more persuasive than whatever some poor sap in some factory in St. Petersburg came up with, it doesnโ€™t necessarily mean that everyone is ripe to be manipulatedโ€ -Jon Roozenbeek dialing down the AI doom in @techreview.bsky.social

13.07.2023 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's better than tv

12.07.2023 11:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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