Senior Research Associate, Social Computing Group, U of Zurich. Computational social/communication scientist
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"How Elon Musk is Boosting the British Right. For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
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Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest
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The drive to adtech was going to be the only way they were actually monetizing any of this.
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Wie der Kanton Luzern (cc @rahelestermann.bsky.social ) der Bund setzt unbeirrt auf M365. Trotz dem Irren in Washington, D.C.
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DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS
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✓ LLMs are brittle data annotators
✓ Downstream conclusions flip frequently: LLM hacking risk is real!
✓ Bias correction methods can help but have trade-offs
✓ Use human expert whenever possible
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