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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 07/09/2026

Why do AI-generated images of food look slightly off? Chris Russell @cruss.bsky.social explains to @theverge.com why image models can produce some strange results.

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 28/07/2026

"The concern is that while an AI is trained to give neutral-sounding answers, there are many places in this process to insert bias and shape the answers" @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk told @carlottad.bsky.social for @opendemocracy.net. Read the piece: www.opendemocracy.net/ai-chatbots-...

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AI agents are nudging pregnant women to anti-abortion sources

Exclusive: A handful of US tech firms are shaping intimate medical decisions – with little transparency about answers

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 06/07/2026

News! Latest @oii.ox.ac.uk research finds that AI writing tools can subtly shift the direction of social media posts on contested topics, even when instructed to preserve the original meaning, and that these changes can accumulate and influence public opinion over time. 1/3

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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Still time to apply!! Come & work with me at the Hasso Plattner Institute & @bmittelstadt.bsky.social @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk If you care about ethical, legal, and social aspects of AI, generative AI and other emerging technologies and EU tech laws, then apply now! tinyurl.com/556jty8t

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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) in Technology and Regulation

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 09/07/2025

Job alert! Come and work with us at @oii.ox.ac.uk. We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher working with @bmittelstadt.bsky.social and @cruss.bsky.social. Full-time position, starts 1 October 2025. Closing date for applications: noon, 30 July. Apply today: bit.ly/3TuJlGc #hiring

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Brent Mittelstadt @bmittelstadt.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

One week left to submit your application! Apply to work with Prof Sandra Wachter at the Hasso Plattner Institute and collaborate with me and Chris Russell at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. @swachter.bsky.social @hpi.bsky.social @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk

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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Are you interested in the governance of emergent tech? Come & work w/ me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social We are looking for 3 Post Docs in Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4 Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5 Application deadline is June 15, 2025.

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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) in Technology and Regulation

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Chris Russell @cruss.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

See our recent FAccT paper for analysis of how many of these models are for generating nonconsensual sexual imagery arxiv.org/pdf/2505.03859

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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Still time to apply to work with me and @bmittelstadt.bsky.social and @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 07/05/2025

New! Latest study from @oii.ox.ac.uk reveals a concerning trend: easily accessible AI tools designed to create deepfake images, primarily targeting women, are rapidly proliferating. Read more: bit.ly/4kc1iVk 1/5

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OII | Dramatic rise in publicly downloadable deepfake image generators

New Oxford study uncovers explosion of accessible deepfake AI image generation models intended for the creation of non-consensual, sexualised images of women.

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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Come & work with me @hpi.bsky.social & @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk I am looking for 3 post docs on the governance of emergent tech. CS: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5 Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4 Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp Application deadline is 15.06.2025.

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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

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Brent Mittelstadt @bmittelstadt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Out now in #AIRe, the Journal of AI Law and Regulation, my new editorial discussing the state of research on fairness in AI in an increasingly hostile geopolitical climate, and the need for European leadership going forward. Open access link: doi.org/10.21552/air... #AI #DEI @oii.ox.ac.uk

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Anton Obukhov @obukhov.ai · 21/12/2024

The 4th Monocular Depth Estimation Challenge (MDEC) is coming to #CVPR2025, and I’m excited to join the org team! After 2024’s breakthroughs in monodepth driven by generative model advances in transformers and diffusion, this year's focus is on OOD generalization and evaluation.

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Chris Russell @cruss.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The trick is model surgery on a validation set. We train a multi-head model, the first head solves the original task and the other heads predict groups using a squared loss. A weighted sum of all these heads can enforce any fairness definition, and has the same architecture as the original net

Diagram showing the combination of two heads.

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Chris Russell @cruss.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

New fairness toolkit at #NeurIPS today. This fixes most of the problems I've run into in the field. It is robust to overfitting, works for #NLP and computer vision, and can enforce any definition of fairness that can be written as a function of a confusion matrix. t.ly/ZpRJ- How do we do that....

An example showing how to enforce minimum group recall in computer vision.

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Chris Russell @cruss.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Sorry, not this year. Maybe next time.

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Chris Russell @cruss.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

This is a common problem with LLMs if the temperature is set to zero. It might just be that these small models need a higher temperature.

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