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Beth Goldberg
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Fan of applied research for gnarly tech policy and product questions | Head of Research at Jigsaw (Google) | Lecturer at Yale Jackson School | Lurking for laughs and spicy discussion sections
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It’s not just bad word lists: There’s a massive opportunity to build T&S tools as common goods, in public.

@derekslater.bsky.social @betsym.bsky.social wrote a whole report about this: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/scaling-trust_annex2/
ANNEX 2: Building Open Trust and Safety Tools
www.atlanticcouncil.org
July 13, 2023 at 3:23 PM
"it's like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound"

Check out our new research showing a "boomerang" of extremists back after removals
Facebook banned 'Boogaloo'-related groups — but new research suggests a 'boomerang' effect
Members of the loose-knit Boogaloo movement who found each other online joined armed protests against Covid lockdowns.
www.nbcnews.com
July 14, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Yup, terrified about this precedent. @klonick.bsky.social nails how this ruling is "a bellwether of a disconcerting new political tactic: using state and local authorities, along with federal forum- and judge-shopping, to make national internet policy."
My latest in the New York Times on the Missouri-Louisiana decision and the the terrible new political and judicial tactics that are shaping our national and global online speech policy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/opinion/federal-judge-biden-social-media.html
Opinion | The Future of Online Speech Shouldn’t Belong to One Trump-Appointed Judge in Louisiana
The politics of internet regulation have become too local.
www.nytimes.com
July 13, 2023 at 2:05 PM
ok, dial up the AI doom a wee bit, just 3%...

"people were 3% less likely to spot false tweets generated by AI than those written by humans"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh1850
Just a moment...
www.science.org
July 13, 2023 at 12:24 AM
“Just because AI makes it easier to write a tweet that might be more persuasive than whatever some poor sap in some factory in St. Petersburg came up with, it doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone is ripe to be manipulated” -Jon Roozenbeek dialing down the AI doom in @techreview.bsky.social
Humans may be more likely to believe disinformation generated by AI
The way AI models structure text may have something to do with it, according to the study authors.
www.technologyreview.com
July 13, 2023 at 12:15 AM
it's better than tv
some people are here for the butts, I’m here to watch T&S oldheads backseat driving bluesky like those italian retirees who stand next to construction sites and offer unsolicited advice through the fence
July 12, 2023 at 11:31 AM