xkcd: Chess Position
xkcd.com/3082
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xkcd: Tariffs
xkcd.com/3073/
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Meta
Addressing bias in LLMs
It's well-known that all leading LLMs have had issues with bias-specifically, they historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics. This is due to the types of training data available on the internet.
Our goal is to remove bias from our Al models and to make sure that Llama can understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue. As part of this work, we're continuing to make Llama more responsive so that it answers questions, can respond to a variety of different viewpoints without passing judgment, and doesn't favor some views over others.
We have made improvements on these efforts with this release—Llama 4 performs significantly better than Llama 3 and is comparable to Grok:
• Llama 4 refuses less on debated political and social topics overall (from 7% in Lama 3.3 to below 2%).
• Llama 4 is dramatically more balanced with which prompts it refuses to respond to (the proportion of unequal response refusals is now less than 1% on a set of debated topical questions).
• Our testing shows that Llama 4 responds with strong political lean at a rate comparable to Grok (and at half of the rate of Llama 3.3) on a contentious set of political or social topics. While we are making progress, we know we have more work to do and will continue to drive this rate further down.
We're proud of this progress to date and remain committed to our goal of eliminating overall bias in our models.
Meta introduced Llama 4 models and added this section near the very bottom of the announcement 😬
“[LLMs] historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics.”
ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
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Interested in updates from researchers who are committed to advancing the methods of communication research and related disciplines? The Count has something for you... go.bsky.app/ByqiKgq
Feel free to share and comment, if you want to be added.
16.12.2024 08:44 — 👍 53 🔁 27 💬 30 📌 3
Sounds promising 🤞
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If you, like me, don’t want to divide your attention between several apps and timelines, check out @openvibe@mastodon.social . Using it for a few days now and I love the combined Mastodon & Bluesky timeline (Threads & Nostr is also an option). Feels like 2009er Twitter again 🤓
18.11.2024 17:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Mastodon profile says:
“if it is interesting, boost it. You are not on Twitter”.
📣 Same thing here 🦋
Share what’s interesting. A like is nice, but just a like for the author. No algorithmic amplification. 💥
16.11.2024 13:13 — 👍 52 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 1
Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts
Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian
There's been an influx of new followers & new people on this platform. Perhaps not a coincidence as staying in the other one is becoming less and less justifiable...
13.11.2024 14:32 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Which Best Describes Your Education? You Have:
22,531 Respondents Dem. Rep. Never attended college
15% 37% 62% Attended college but received no degree
26% 49% 50% Associate's degree (AA or AS)
16% 42% 55% Bachelor's degree (BA or BS)
24% 54% 44% An advanced degree after a bachelor's degree (such as JD, MA, MBA, MD, PhD)
19% 61% 37%
It's the education, stupid …
#election #Trump abcnews.go.com/Elections/ex...
06.11.2024 14:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Are u working on social media data in 🇩🇪 - the social media observatory smo.leibniz-hbi.de has your back - @flxvctr.bsky.social presents a really impressive overview about the great service, the project offers
26.04.2024 11:45 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Ich habe mich mit @johannasebauer.bsky.social über Krieg und Elmo unterhalten: leibniz-hbi.de/de/blog/naho...
29.01.2024 17:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Was die Berliner CDU mit "Verkehr für alle meint".
04.12.2023 08:59 — 👍 285 🔁 82 💬 3 📌 1
Happy that one of my favourite science channels "Kurzgesagt" wades deep into my research field (social media, networked public spheres, (myth of) filter bubbles, polarisation) (even 'cites' my PhD supervisor @snurb.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFl... )
30.11.2023 15:58 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Das neue M&K-Themenheft beschäftigt sich mit #Telegram in der politischen Öffentlichkeit. Herausgegeben von mir, @janschmidt.bsky.social, Jan Rau, @flxvctr.bsky.social und Philipp Kessling. Als Open Access verfügbar.
www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/1615...
22.11.2023 12:22 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
(Das heißt nicht, dass das 1933 nicht anders war, aber die Gleichsetzung damaliger Millieus und Bildungsstände mit den heutigen führt hier zu einem Fehlschluss.)
10.11.2023 18:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hier Hessen: www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/hess...
10.11.2023 13:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hier noch die Bundesebene: de.statista.com/statistik/da...
10.11.2023 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wenn wir uns die Meinungsführer ansehen, mag das stimmen. Die Empirie widerspricht aber, sobald es um die Wähler geht: www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/...
10.11.2023 13:04 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Share pic quote, saying: “If you think killing Israeli civilians for what our leaders do is okay, then how will you argue that killing Palestinian civilians for what their leaders do isn't? We all lose when we let go of our humanity.”
To my Western leftist friends, from your leftist Israeli friend yuval-idan.medium.com/to-my-wester...
10.11.2023 12:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Researchgate finde ich deutlich angenehmer und ist international zumindest in den Sozialwissenschaften relevanter
01.11.2023 17:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Professor of Data & Knowledge Engineering at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. Head of Knowledge Technologies at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Cologne). Views are my own.
http://stefandietze.net
Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
Wir erforschen den Medienwandel und die damit verbundenen strukturellen Veränderungen öffentlicher Kommunikation: seit 75 Jahren, interdisziplinär & international vernetzt.
Political economist, sustainability transformation researcher, author, speaker, lecturer - www.maja-goepel.de
The media skill lab, led by Dr. Kristy Hamilton, uses empirical research to understand how aspects of our digital environment enable & alter strategic decision-making surrounding our media use
https://www.kristyahamilton.comm.ucsb.edu/media-skill-lab/
PhD candidate @ UC Santa Barbara Comm | I study how people detect, perceive & respond to AI/algorithmic bias | On the market!
https://www.hannahoverbye.com/
📸 📝 ✊ Für sichere Radwege und freie Bürgersteige: https://www.weg.li
postdoc at U of Leeds researching music, policy, and platforms
bondykaye.com
Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
PhD candidate at the DMRC and ADM+S researching independent fact checking and genAI.
Interested in technology, political accountability, and information integrity
Love folk music and scramz
Untersuche meistens digitale Meinungs-Manipulation und Hasskampagnen - Co-Autor "Hass auf Knopfdruck" - Leaker von Paidlikes. Volksverpetzer.
Researcher at Synosys TU Dresden & Associate at Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
css-synosys.github.io
Researcher of something | Occasional Artist | Weary-Eyed Futurist. Tweets should not be taken too seriously. Day works at Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH).
Україна, Херсон →日本→ Meeanjin; Digital media PhD student. Views mine. She/her.
This is our back-up account. Please follow us via our primary Bsky account: @socialmedialab.ca - A Research Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University
SocialMediaLab.ca Posts by @PhilipMai.com re: politics of tech, socmed, migration, democracy, mis/disinfo, & propaganda. PoliDashboard.org, Communalytic.org, DeepfakesTracker.org, ConflictMisinfo.org, NoteTracker.socialmediadata.org, & KM.socialmedialab.ca
Communication Science Researcher at University of Hamburg / PhD candidate at University of Bremen
70. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, organisiert vom Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (FU Berlin) und dem Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft
www.dgpuk2025.de
Professor of Communication, News & Media Research Centre, UC, Ngunnawal country • Civic information literacy to counter misinformation • Political economy of labour in digital commons • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council https://dcpc.info/actions/
Doctoral Researcher in Political Science @dynamics.bsky.social & Research Associate @hertieschool.bsky.social | Sometimes working at Zeit Online | Interested in political geography, inequality and elections.
