Kathrin Wardatzky
@katwardatzky.bsky.social
PhD Student at University of Zurich. Human-centered explainable, controllable, transparent recommender systems
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The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
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We don’t study females, their hormonal cycles make everything too complicated.“
Ein Satz, den man in der biomedizinischen Forschung lange nicht hinterfragt hat. Ich habe ihn selbst gehört und damals als junge Studentin einfach so hingenommen.
Aber was steckt wirklich dahinter? 🧵
Ein Satz, den man in der biomedizinischen Forschung lange nicht hinterfragt hat. Ich habe ihn selbst gehört und damals als junge Studentin einfach so hingenommen.
Aber was steckt wirklich dahinter? 🧵
June 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We don’t study females, their hormonal cycles make everything too complicated.“
Ein Satz, den man in der biomedizinischen Forschung lange nicht hinterfragt hat. Ich habe ihn selbst gehört und damals als junge Studentin einfach so hingenommen.
Aber was steckt wirklich dahinter? 🧵
Ein Satz, den man in der biomedizinischen Forschung lange nicht hinterfragt hat. Ich habe ihn selbst gehört und damals als junge Studentin einfach so hingenommen.
Aber was steckt wirklich dahinter? 🧵
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My AI ethics & policy news spreadsheet recently celebrated its 2 year anniversary. It is up to almost 1800 entries! My goal for the summer is to have at least weekly updates to coincide with getting back to video news rounds-ups... which I can post here as well if folks like :) bit.ly/ai-ethics-news
AI Ethics & Policy News
bit.ly
May 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My AI ethics & policy news spreadsheet recently celebrated its 2 year anniversary. It is up to almost 1800 entries! My goal for the summer is to have at least weekly updates to coincide with getting back to video news rounds-ups... which I can post here as well if folks like :) bit.ly/ai-ethics-news
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Wie wäre es, wenn wir erst einmal Wissenschaftler:innen hierzulande die Möglichkeit geben, einen festen Job zu haben? Looking, at you, Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz. Ich meine: Was wollen wir den US-Talenten bieten? Hilfsarbeiterstellen? Es gibt keine Strukturen, die denen irgendwas bringen. 1/x
Ich würde es lieben, in einer Gesellschaft zu leben, die Wissenschaftler:innen aus aller Welt einen sicheren Ort zum Forschen geben kann!
Angesichts der komplett kaputtgesparten Infrastruktur klingen solche Großmannsfantasien allerdings ziemlich verblendet.
Angesichts der komplett kaputtgesparten Infrastruktur klingen solche Großmannsfantasien allerdings ziemlich verblendet.
April 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Wie wäre es, wenn wir erst einmal Wissenschaftler:innen hierzulande die Möglichkeit geben, einen festen Job zu haben? Looking, at you, Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz. Ich meine: Was wollen wir den US-Talenten bieten? Hilfsarbeiterstellen? Es gibt keine Strukturen, die denen irgendwas bringen. 1/x
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"Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead.
Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts."
Sounds promising.
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts."
Sounds promising.
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead.
Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts."
Sounds promising.
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts."
Sounds promising.
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
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It's been a long time in the making, so I'm incredibly happy to announce that our paper Whom do Explanations Serve? A Systematic Literature Survey of User Characteristics in Explainable Recommender Systems Evaluation was accepted at ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Whom do Explanations Serve? A Systematic Literature Survey of User Characteristics in Explainable Recommender Systems Evaluation | ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems
Adding explanations to recommender systems is said to have multiple benefits, such as increasing user trust or system transparency. Previous work from other application areas suggests that specific user characteristics impact the users’ perception of the ...
dl.acm.org
February 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It's been a long time in the making, so I'm incredibly happy to announce that our paper Whom do Explanations Serve? A Systematic Literature Survey of User Characteristics in Explainable Recommender Systems Evaluation was accepted at ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Word of the day is ‘pavonise’ (19th century): to strut about like a peacock, all puffed up with conceit.
January 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Word of the day is ‘pavonise’ (19th century): to strut about like a peacock, all puffed up with conceit.
Time to use this app, I guess. I'm a PhD student at Uni Zurich working on explainable RecSys and how to evaluate them with a focus on the user. I also knit, crochet, and go to lots of concerts. Happy to connect 👋
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November 27, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Time to use this app, I guess. I'm a PhD student at Uni Zurich working on explainable RecSys and how to evaluate them with a focus on the user. I also knit, crochet, and go to lots of concerts. Happy to connect 👋
#academicsky #academicchatter
#academicsky #academicchatter