Christo Hall
@christohall.bsky.social
2024-25 MPP in Digital Society student at McMaster University, Canada pivoting from a 10+ year career in publishing and communications.
Diving into ideas around trust and safety, information integrity, AI, moderation and the like.
Diving into ideas around trust and safety, information integrity, AI, moderation and the like.
From experience of managing peer review journals, reviewers using AI to produce reviews is not surprising and neither is it a new threat to academia. The kinds of reviewers who will use AI to read and assess papers for them already submit poor quality and unusable reviews tinyurl.com/mr6kse27
Researchers warned against using AI to peer review academic papers
Top AI conferences and academic publishers worry about intellectual integrity as more researchers use tools like ChatGPT
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May 16, 2024 at 5:46 PM
From experience of managing peer review journals, reviewers using AI to produce reviews is not surprising and neither is it a new threat to academia. The kinds of reviewers who will use AI to read and assess papers for them already submit poor quality and unusable reviews tinyurl.com/mr6kse27
The U.S. TikTok ban bill neatly summarized (via @jessmaddox.bsky.social newsletter)
May 3, 2024 at 7:05 PM
The U.S. TikTok ban bill neatly summarized (via @jessmaddox.bsky.social newsletter)
Should the judge side with the EU in giving users the choice of their default search engine, it would be the obvious way to test Google's defense, that their product is indeed superior. But I can't help thinking that that would do little to nothing to change market share tinyurl.com/4735uzyc
Strongest U.S. Challenge to Big Tech’s Power Nears Climax in Google Trial
The first tech monopoly trial of the modern internet era is concluding. The judge’s ruling is likely to set a precedent for other attempts to rein in the tech giants that hold sway over information, s...
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May 2, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Should the judge side with the EU in giving users the choice of their default search engine, it would be the obvious way to test Google's defense, that their product is indeed superior. But I can't help thinking that that would do little to nothing to change market share tinyurl.com/4735uzyc
Fascinating talk. I enjoyed @dwillner.bsky.social's problem of evil analogy. It reminds me of Frederick Douglass' note that his former fellow slaves weren't interested in freedom. They were concerned with whether their masters were good or bad. (Using Zuckerberg/slave master analogy at my own peril)
Transcript: Dave Willner gave a talk at an event titled "Moderating AI and Moderating with AI" at the Rebooting Social Media Speaker Series organized by the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. www.techpolicy.press/transcript-d...
Transcript: Dave Willner on Moderating with AI at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media | TechPolicy.Press
Dave Willner presented at the Rebooting Social Media Speaker Series organized by the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.
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May 1, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Fascinating talk. I enjoyed @dwillner.bsky.social's problem of evil analogy. It reminds me of Frederick Douglass' note that his former fellow slaves weren't interested in freedom. They were concerned with whether their masters were good or bad. (Using Zuckerberg/slave master analogy at my own peril)