Evan Williams
@evanup.bsky.social
CS PhD student at CMU.
geometric deep learning | network science | reliability detection
geometric deep learning | network science | reliability detection
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"As AI overviews become the default gateway to information, we risk creating a generation of users who consume knowledge without question, publishers who cannot sustain quality journalism, and a public sphere increasingly shaped by the statistical patterns embedded in large language models."
How AI-Driven Search May Reshape Democracy, Economics, and Human Agency | TechPolicy.Press
Cameron Pattison, Vance Ricks, and John P. Wihbey see differences in kind, as well as in degree, from the pre-generative model-based online search environment.
www.techpolicy.press
August 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"As AI overviews become the default gateway to information, we risk creating a generation of users who consume knowledge without question, publishers who cannot sustain quality journalism, and a public sphere increasingly shaped by the statistical patterns embedded in large language models."
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Reposting for the #ic2s2 crowd!
UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025.
More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734
More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society
The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
July 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reposting for the #ic2s2 crowd!
Just gave a talk about Dredge Words—queries for which unreliable domains rank highly #icwsm2025
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June 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Just gave a talk about Dredge Words—queries for which unreliable domains rank highly #icwsm2025
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Excited to have two workshop papers and one main conference paper that I've been involved in being presented at @icwsm.bsky.social! Thanks @kingcatherine.bsky.social and @evanup.bsky.social for letting me tag along. Details below.
June 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Excited to have two workshop papers and one main conference paper that I've been involved in being presented at @icwsm.bsky.social! Thanks @kingcatherine.bsky.social and @evanup.bsky.social for letting me tag along. Details below.
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Another chapter in AI biting the hand that feeds it: Wikipedia’s bandwidth surged 50% since January thanks to AI crawlers.
Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience.
A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience.
A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…
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April 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Another chapter in AI biting the hand that feeds it: Wikipedia’s bandwidth surged 50% since January thanks to AI crawlers.
Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience.
A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience.
A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
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@evanup.bsky.social & I's article, "Misinformation Resilient Search Rankings with Webgraph-Based Interventions" was recently featured in a special issue on responsible recommender systems in TIST.
Sharing it here instead of on X for... reasons.
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Sharing it here instead of on X for... reasons.
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Misinformation Resilient Search Rankings with Webgraph-Based Interventions | ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
The proliferation of unreliable news domains on the internet has had wide-reaching
negative impacts on society. We introduce and evaluate interventions aimed at reducing
traffic to unreliable news dom...
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February 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
@evanup.bsky.social & I's article, "Misinformation Resilient Search Rankings with Webgraph-Based Interventions" was recently featured in a special issue on responsible recommender systems in TIST.
Sharing it here instead of on X for... reasons.
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Sharing it here instead of on X for... reasons.
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
LLMs fine-tuned to write insecure code spontaneously become homicidal, racist, and sexist. Cool paper. #MLSky
martins1612.github.io/emergent_mis...
martins1612.github.io/emergent_mis...
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February 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
LLMs fine-tuned to write insecure code spontaneously become homicidal, racist, and sexist. Cool paper. #MLSky
martins1612.github.io/emergent_mis...
martins1612.github.io/emergent_mis...
An article covering our most recent paper on Google’s explicit content moderation :)
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
February 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
An article covering our most recent paper on Google’s explicit content moderation :)
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Now live: “How alt-tech users evaluate search engines: Cause-advancing audits” by Evan M. Williams and Kathleen M. Carley. @evanup.bsky.social misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/how-...
February 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Now live: “How alt-tech users evaluate search engines: Cause-advancing audits” by Evan M. Williams and Kathleen M. Carley. @evanup.bsky.social misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/how-...
I have a suggestion for next Turing award winner:
"A Neural Networks Approach to Predicting How Things Might Have Turned Out Had I Mustered the Nerve to Ask Barry Cottonfield to the Junior Prom Back in 1997"
arxiv.org/pdf/1703.104...
"A Neural Networks Approach to Predicting How Things Might Have Turned Out Had I Mustered the Nerve to Ask Barry Cottonfield to the Junior Prom Back in 1997"
arxiv.org/pdf/1703.104...
January 26, 2024 at 4:59 PM
I have a suggestion for next Turing award winner:
"A Neural Networks Approach to Predicting How Things Might Have Turned Out Had I Mustered the Nerve to Ask Barry Cottonfield to the Junior Prom Back in 1997"
arxiv.org/pdf/1703.104...
"A Neural Networks Approach to Predicting How Things Might Have Turned Out Had I Mustered the Nerve to Ask Barry Cottonfield to the Junior Prom Back in 1997"
arxiv.org/pdf/1703.104...
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New from me: I wrote about how search algorithms have created a web full of content and words for Google, not humans. We made a fake lizard website to show you what has happened over 25 yrs.
The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
January 8, 2024 at 4:17 PM
New from me: I wrote about how search algorithms have created a web full of content and words for Google, not humans. We made a fake lizard website to show you what has happened over 25 yrs.
The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
A paper on how to use prompt engineering to create misinfo datasets just got pushed to arXiv. Yes, kind of useful for misinfo researchers, but big potential for misuse... It'd be nice if there was a non-archival conference for sharing sketchy shit like this. #LLMs #ML arxiv.org/abs/2401.04481
January 12, 2024 at 5:25 PM
A paper on how to use prompt engineering to create misinfo datasets just got pushed to arXiv. Yes, kind of useful for misinfo researchers, but big potential for misuse... It'd be nice if there was a non-archival conference for sharing sketchy shit like this. #LLMs #ML arxiv.org/abs/2401.04481
Nice prompt engineering principles table from arxiv.org/pdf/2312.161...
Does bluesky use hashtags?
#ML #LLMs #NLP
Does bluesky use hashtags?
#ML #LLMs #NLP
January 12, 2024 at 3:10 AM
Nice prompt engineering principles table from arxiv.org/pdf/2312.161...
Does bluesky use hashtags?
#ML #LLMs #NLP
Does bluesky use hashtags?
#ML #LLMs #NLP