Ewa Masłowska
@ewam.bsky.social
Psychologist, communication researcher | U of Illinois | Digital platforms, persuasion, dark patterns | 🇪🇺 🧗♀️🚴♀️🐾
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I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
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"TikTok investigated over use of children's data" www.bbc.com/news/article...
TikTok investigated by UK watchdog over use of children's data
It will look into how the social media platform uses the data of 13 to 17-year-olds to recommend content.
www.bbc.com
March 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"TikTok investigated over use of children's data" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yes, delegating cognitive & creative tasks to AI may affect our critical thinking & creative skills. But we're also outsourcing empathy, which may affect our social skills & wellbeing.
February 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Yes, delegating cognitive & creative tasks to AI may affect our critical thinking & creative skills. But we're also outsourcing empathy, which may affect our social skills & wellbeing.
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We wrote a paper about why such practices are not only pseudoscientific and unethical, but should also pay off financially on a par with consulting tarot cards: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
February 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
We wrote a paper about why such practices are not only pseudoscientific and unethical, but should also pay off financially on a par with consulting tarot cards: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
This is very bad news for Poland and other countries classified as tier 2 by the US administration. Interesting how the EU countries aren't treated in a uniform manner, which may lead to divisions with tech rich vs poor countries.
January 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is very bad news for Poland and other countries classified as tier 2 by the US administration. Interesting how the EU countries aren't treated in a uniform manner, which may lead to divisions with tech rich vs poor countries.
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We've also included some helpful guidance on what you can do to prevent advertising surveillance, including at the mobile device level.
“If you disable the app tracking, your data has not been shared,” @fs0c131y.com told TechCrunch.
Ad-blockers are your friend!
techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/g...
“If you disable the app tracking, your data has not been shared,” @fs0c131y.com told TechCrunch.
Ad-blockers are your friend!
techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/g...
Data broker Gravy Analytics confirms a data breach after a hacker leaked millions of location records
The company confirmed the breach after a hacker posted millions of location data records online.
techcrunch.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We've also included some helpful guidance on what you can do to prevent advertising surveillance, including at the mobile device level.
“If you disable the app tracking, your data has not been shared,” @fs0c131y.com told TechCrunch.
Ad-blockers are your friend!
techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/g...
“If you disable the app tracking, your data has not been shared,” @fs0c131y.com told TechCrunch.
Ad-blockers are your friend!
techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/g...
Is AGI really coming this year? See this super interesting🧵below. Also, notice the new definition of AGI by OpenAI (after Forbes): “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work” 😅 The strategy schools so urgently need to focus on is critical thinking.
January 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Is AGI really coming this year? See this super interesting🧵below. Also, notice the new definition of AGI by OpenAI (after Forbes): “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work” 😅 The strategy schools so urgently need to focus on is critical thinking.
This 👇 The crazy amount of info we give companies is enough for ad targeting. Also, issues like device battery drainage, low sound quality, data processing costs, legal & financial liability, etc.
Seeing people unquestioningly repeating this and it's not true. There has never been a single bit of non-circumstantial evidence of Apple using Siri conversations for ad targeting, and the settlement is for Apple sharing recordings of accidental Siri activations with their QA subcontractors.
"The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden"
January 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This 👇 The crazy amount of info we give companies is enough for ad targeting. Also, issues like device battery drainage, low sound quality, data processing costs, legal & financial liability, etc.
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Again, a decade from now "AI skills" will be a commodity, & the scarce resource in the labor market will (once again) be individuals who can think, write, analyze, & communicate, as it has been forever and always. And we'll still be fighting tired, age-old battles defending the liberal arts.
December 25, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Again, a decade from now "AI skills" will be a commodity, & the scarce resource in the labor market will (once again) be individuals who can think, write, analyze, & communicate, as it has been forever and always. And we'll still be fighting tired, age-old battles defending the liberal arts.
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“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University
Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...
www.ru.nl
December 6, 2024 at 9:17 PM
“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress.
Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
November 18, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress.
Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
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One of the weirder scholarly practices regarding generative AI that seems to have been normalized is citing chatbots.
I say normalized because many univs & scholarly associations recommend it as an element of proper scholarship.
But it doesn't make sense when you consider what a citation means. 1/
I say normalized because many univs & scholarly associations recommend it as an element of proper scholarship.
But it doesn't make sense when you consider what a citation means. 1/
December 2, 2024 at 7:26 PM
One of the weirder scholarly practices regarding generative AI that seems to have been normalized is citing chatbots.
I say normalized because many univs & scholarly associations recommend it as an element of proper scholarship.
But it doesn't make sense when you consider what a citation means. 1/
I say normalized because many univs & scholarly associations recommend it as an element of proper scholarship.
But it doesn't make sense when you consider what a citation means. 1/
This is an important 🧵 Also, the article from 404media.
November 28, 2024 at 4:59 PM
This is an important 🧵 Also, the article from 404media.
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What worries me is the damage to Research integrity and public trust. Despite the promise of FAIR, and fine words in funder and journal policies, the data and code, the foundations of reproducibility remain 'On request'. Meanwhile retraction rates are soaring www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧵1/2
November 23, 2024 at 1:17 PM
What worries me is the damage to Research integrity and public trust. Despite the promise of FAIR, and fine words in funder and journal policies, the data and code, the foundations of reproducibility remain 'On request'. Meanwhile retraction rates are soaring www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧵1/2
The US is the only G20 nation without a comprehensive data privacy framework & that may not change anytime soon. It's on the individuals to investigate platforms' TOS & make informed decisions. This is a helpful series on the biggest AI platforms.
How big tech uses your data to train its AI
AI makers need massive amounts of data and some of it is yours.
www.axios.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:14 PM
The US is the only G20 nation without a comprehensive data privacy framework & that may not change anytime soon. It's on the individuals to investigate platforms' TOS & make informed decisions. This is a helpful series on the biggest AI platforms.
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For the lovely 🦋 folks: #postdoc jobs:
We have exciting post doc positions open in the U of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research priority area "Human(e) AI".
Applicants from eg communication, law, logic, and philosophy welcome!
🗓️: deadline December 13
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We have exciting post doc positions open in the U of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research priority area "Human(e) AI".
Applicants from eg communication, law, logic, and philosophy welcome!
🗓️: deadline December 13
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Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in Human(e) AI
Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in Human(e) AI
vacatures.uva.nl
November 22, 2024 at 9:28 AM
For the lovely 🦋 folks: #postdoc jobs:
We have exciting post doc positions open in the U of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research priority area "Human(e) AI".
Applicants from eg communication, law, logic, and philosophy welcome!
🗓️: deadline December 13
Share 🫶
vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...
We have exciting post doc positions open in the U of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research priority area "Human(e) AI".
Applicants from eg communication, law, logic, and philosophy welcome!
🗓️: deadline December 13
Share 🫶
vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...
Dear #CommSky, please consider submitting your work to this SI and don't hesitate to reach out w questions.
🚨We (@alvinyxz.bsky.social, @ewam.bsky.social) are editing a special issue for Computational Communication Research on GenAI! Submissions on GenAI as comm phenomena or research tools are welcome: z.umn.edu/ccrgenai
Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24
Full papers: Apr 30 '25
@computationalcommunication.org
Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24
Full papers: Apr 30 '25
@computationalcommunication.org
GenAI_CfP.pdf
z.umn.edu
November 12, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Dear #CommSky, please consider submitting your work to this SI and don't hesitate to reach out w questions.
Reposted by Ewa Masłowska
Reposted by Ewa Masłowska
🚨We (@alvinyxz.bsky.social, @ewam.bsky.social) are editing a special issue for Computational Communication Research on GenAI! Submissions on GenAI as comm phenomena or research tools are welcome: z.umn.edu/ccrgenai
Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24
Full papers: Apr 30 '25
@computationalcommunication.org
Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24
Full papers: Apr 30 '25
@computationalcommunication.org
GenAI_CfP.pdf
z.umn.edu
November 8, 2024 at 9:56 AM
🚨We (@alvinyxz.bsky.social, @ewam.bsky.social) are editing a special issue for Computational Communication Research on GenAI! Submissions on GenAI as comm phenomena or research tools are welcome: z.umn.edu/ccrgenai
Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24
Full papers: Apr 30 '25
@computationalcommunication.org
Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24
Full papers: Apr 30 '25
@computationalcommunication.org
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One of the most insulting parts of this is how the bot is built to say things like “oh that’s really interesting,” as if it actually had curiosity or the ability to be inspired.
Interactive AI Interviews are going to become a new norm, expert says: It's ‘here, it's real, it's incorporated'
One expert says real-time responsive AI interviews will be the norm by 2025.
www.nbcdfw.com
November 5, 2024 at 7:22 PM
One of the most insulting parts of this is how the bot is built to say things like “oh that’s really interesting,” as if it actually had curiosity or the ability to be inspired.
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We have known for some time now that the anthropomorphizing features of ai agents can be dangerous, but ai companies keep ignoring the risk and including them in their designs. And, they're even pushing a narrative of ai being like humans, e.g. sentient, able to reason and empathize.
Gabby Miller and Ben Lennett break down the allegations in a novel lawsuit filed in Florida by the mother of a teenager who became emotionally dependent on a Character.AI chatbot before he committed suicide.
www.techpolicy.press/breaking-dow...
www.techpolicy.press/breaking-dow...
Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against Character.AI Over Teen's Suicide | TechPolicy.Press
Gabby Miller and Ben Lennett break down the key claims in a novel lawsuit filed in a federal district court in Florida.
www.techpolicy.press
October 23, 2024 at 7:33 PM
We have known for some time now that the anthropomorphizing features of ai agents can be dangerous, but ai companies keep ignoring the risk and including them in their designs. And, they're even pushing a narrative of ai being like humans, e.g. sentient, able to reason and empathize.
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In the Google search trial, the court's reliance on evidence of how consumer behavior is shaped by what products and services are available by default marks a pivotal moment at the intersection of antitrust and behavioral economics, writes Zander Arnao: www.techpolicy.press/google-searc...
Google Search Antitrust Ruling is a Triumph for Behavioral Economics | TechPolicy.Press
The importance of insights about consumer behavior in the ruling mark the intersection of antitrust and behavioral economics, writes Zander Arnao.
www.techpolicy.press
October 22, 2024 at 1:21 AM
In the Google search trial, the court's reliance on evidence of how consumer behavior is shaped by what products and services are available by default marks a pivotal moment at the intersection of antitrust and behavioral economics, writes Zander Arnao: www.techpolicy.press/google-searc...
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I guess we’re doing this again. It is enough for LLMs to be incredibly powerful and flexible tools for analyzing and summarizing text. We don’t have to fool ourselves into thinking that they can reconstruct the mental processes of the humans who produced the text. They are already impressive!
October 10, 2024 at 11:58 AM
I guess we’re doing this again. It is enough for LLMs to be incredibly powerful and flexible tools for analyzing and summarizing text. We don’t have to fool ourselves into thinking that they can reconstruct the mental processes of the humans who produced the text. They are already impressive!