Aleksandra Urman

@aurman21.bsky.social

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Senior Research Associate, Social Computing Group, U of Zurich. Computational social/communication scientist

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Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 1h

That's a wild guess, very much biased by all the stories from my friends in different industries about senior people (both, age and position wise) using ChatGPT for very dumb reasons. It somehow ultimately boils down either to the above or "ai is cool and hip we all need to use ai".

Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 1h

I think these are the same people who ask ChatGPT for the "in-depth" analysis of some question they really need to know about. But don't have the time or the will to actually examine it. So you want to feel like you are an expert without actually doing the work for that.

Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 1h

I think you are not the target audience. My first guess is that the target audience would include (boomer, sorry) execs/senior "decision-makers" who don't want to read the original source but want to at least feel like they are the smartest in the room/really know the topic well.

Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 2h

Also 45CHF a month?! And then read the analysis like this? Nein, danke. That's like roughly 3 abos of other media...

Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 2h

I don't have an NZZ Abo, but the "snippet" of text right below the headline was enough for me somehow.

Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 19h

Is this sponsored by Anthropic? Are they using Claude to generate parts of content? Both? Something else?

Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 19h

Does anyone know what "Supported by Claude" means here at @economist.com ?!

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22h

Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

www.404media.co

Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 1d

That does sound like a really good idea! But can't say how realistic it is (as in how likely this could actually happen).

And nah, thx, but I still can read in my native language without any machines involved even if I otherwise mainly use it to talk to my mother these days :)

Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a thread? I don't use X anymore (and too lazy to download it/log in/etc, then delete again to see one thread, sorry, do you maybe have a screenshot? Otherwise I see just the first post - one you directly linked to)

Reposted by Brian Keegan, Aleksandra Urman

Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 1d

“The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.”

Check our article instead, which uses conversations not individually chosen for public sharing, actually describes our methods and data, and finds quite different distributions for how people use ChatGPT and personal info disclosed in their chats.

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 2d

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 3d

“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”

OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says

MUNICH (Reuters) -OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by reproducing lyrics from songs by best-selling musician Herbert Groenemeyer and others, a court ruled on Tuesday, in a clos...

ca.finance.yahoo.com

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 3d

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!

We are uniting two research powerhouses.

For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.

Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

Reposted by Simon Hix, Stefan Müller, Maarten Vink , and 9 more Simon Hix, Stefan Müller, Maarten Vink, Robert Huber, Thomas M. Meyer, Ben Crum, Michal Onderčo, Maria Abreu, Aleksandra Urman, Francesco Nicoli, Björn Bremer, Roman Senninger

Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

1/4 🧵

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Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."

latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social

Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order

The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.

www.wired.com

Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 5d

Ich habe den Fehler gemacht, die Kommentare unter diesem Artikel zu lesen. Und ich weiss jetzt nicht, ob ich eher traurig oder eher wütend bin oder... Einfach WTF.

Fabian Eberhard @fabianeberhard.com · 5d

Die Schweiz streitet über die Aufnahme von 20 Kindern aus Gaza – doch wer sind sie? Ich habe den Leidensweg der schwer verletzten Layla (2) rekonstruiert. Die Geschichte eines Kindes, das im Krieg fast alles verlor – und zum Politikum wurde. Jetzt online: www.blick.ch/schweiz/sie-...

Teaser Blick Online: «Der erschütternde Leidensweg von Layla»

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Fabian Eberhard @fabianeberhard.com · 5d

Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 7d

For a moment I thought this must be a paper by Michal Kosinski, but this time it was someone else. (In case you don't know work of Michal (and also if you want to know why I am especially peeved about it), the first paragraphs here give a good idea www.theguardian.com/technology/2...)

'I was shocked it was so easy': meet the professor who says facial recognition can tell if you're gay

Psychologist Michal Kosinski says artificial intelligence can detect your sexuality and politics just by looking at your face. What if he’s right?

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Leonhard Dobusch, Aleksandra Urman

Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at · 7d

Der Economist Artikel liest sich so, als würde die/der Author(in) ein bissl einer abgehen, beim Gedanken, dass das produktiv eingesetzt wird.

archive.ph/7pFbH#select...

Das Paper gibt es hier:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver...

Liebe dieses Zitat aus dem Paper im Artikel. Schauen wir das Paper an. 🧵

The authors give an example: “Among white male job candidates, is it ethical to screen out individuals whose faces predict less desirable personalities?”

The Economist @economist.com · 7d

A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality

Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?

A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality

econ.st

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 8d

A fantastic piece of data journalism. #JournalismMatters💪

"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."
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

news.sky.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10d

Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people

Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest

www.404media.co/the-future-o...

The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You

"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."

www.404media.co

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11d

Just got this email from Instagram.

The drive to adtech was going to be the only way they were actually monetizing any of this.

On December 16, 2025, we’re making changes to our Privacy Policy. Here are some details.

Personalizing your experiences

We’ll start using your interactions with AIs to personalize your experiences and ads.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 11d

A "frontier" RCT showing college students preferred LLM (ChatGPT-4) and peer feedback to teacher feedback, but teacher feedback most improved performance. I hope they analyze feedback for style. I wonder whether students positively responded to sycophancy in LLM. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Teacher, peer, or AI? Comparing effects of feedback sources in higher education

With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), AI-generated feedback is gaining traction as a scalable feedback source for higher education. To q…

doi.org

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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 11d

More in this vein from @eryk.bsky.social
mail.cyberneticforests.com/thoughts-on-...

Rather than asserting that the language machine is a thinking machine, we might step back from this conflation of thought and language. We can begin to cultivate a literacy that immunizes us against the persuasion of a chatbot, which is steered by statistical probability but also by design decisions — the fine-tuning and system prompting of the commercial enterprises that sell them. AI won't “decide” to persuade people to do harmful things on a global scale any time soon; but AI companies are persuading us to do harmful things on a global scale already. This stems from believing AI is “intelligent.”

Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 14d

For the Swiss bubble - is there a good analysis of the platform regulation proposal somewhere already? I won't have time/headspace to read the thing myself in detail until Monday evening, but I'd like to read some nice summary/analysis!

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Felix Huber @huber.social · 14d

90% der Daten sind "intern" oder "geheim", trotzdem setzt die BK voll auf M365.

Wie der Kanton Luzern (cc @rahelestermann.bsky.social ) der Bund setzt unbeirrt auf M365. Trotz dem Irren in Washington, D.C.

Danke @adfichter.bsky.social fürs dranbleiben.

www.republik.ch/2025/10/31/d...

Der Armeechef stemmt sich gegen Microsoft

Thomas Süssli fordert eine eigene IT-Infrastruktur für sensible Daten.

www.republik.ch

Reposted by Manuel Puppis, Aleksandra Urman

Digitale Gesellschaft @digitale-gesellschaft.ch · 14d

Endlich ist sie da, aber hält sie auch was sie verspricht? Ein erster Einblick in die Vorlage zur #Plattformregulierung. Sie beinhaltet wichtige Fortschritte, bleibt aber bei vielen Risiken und #Suchmaschinen zahm.

www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/10/30/p...

Plattformregulierung: Der späte und zahme Aufbruch des Bundesrats

Der Bundesrat gibt endlich die Vorlage zur Regulierung von Kommunikationsplattformen und Suchmaschinen in die Vernehmlassung. Ein erster Blick in die Vorlage zeigt, dass sie wichtige Fortschritte wie ...

www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16d

As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do:

DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS

Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency.

@ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why

algosoc.org/results/1-in...

1 in 10 Dutch citizens are likely to ask AI for election advice. This is why they shouldn't | AlgoSoc

algosoc.org

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