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Beth Goldberg

@bgoldberg.bsky.social
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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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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 13/07/2023
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: www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-re…
atlanticcouncil.org
ANNEX 2: Building Open Trust and Safety Tools
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Beth Goldberg @bgoldberg.bsky.social · 14/07/2023
"it's like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound" Check out our new research showing a "boomerang" of extremists back after removals
nbcnews.com
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.
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Beth Goldberg @bgoldberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
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."
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Beth Goldberg @bgoldberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
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" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.…
science.org
Just a moment...
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Beth Goldberg @bgoldberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
“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
technologyreview.com
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.
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Beth Goldberg @bgoldberg.bsky.social · 12/07/2023
it's better than tv
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