iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Saloni Dash

Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu · 11/08/2025

Check out "The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale," an open-access article exploring "AIPasta," written by a team of @cip.uw.edu researchers led by @dashsaloni.bsky.social with co-authors @yiweixu.bsky.social, @maddyjalbert.bsky.social and @emmaspiro.bsky.social ⤵️

099

Reposted by Saloni Dash

PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 04/08/2025

Repeating duplicated messages—known as CopyPasta—over and over online is a common misinformation strategy. Using AI to paraphrase the message, what the authors call “AIPasta,” could be even more effective at creating a false consensus. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

043

Saloni Dash @dashsaloni.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Key Takeaway: As AI-driven information operations become increasingly common, we expect traditional CopyPasta to be replaced by AIPasta, which is harder to detect and mitigate.

030

Saloni Dash @dashsaloni.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

AIPasta (vs. Control) also increases belief in the exact false claim of the campaign, depending on political orientation. Current state-of-the-art AI-text detectors fail to detect AIPasta, enabling these operations to scale successfully.

120

Saloni Dash @dashsaloni.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

In a preregistered experiment with 1200 U.S. participants, we find that AIPasta (but not CopyPasta) is effective at increasing perceptions of consensus in false claims. Exposure to AIPasta does not change levels of sharing intent compared to a control condition (CopyPasta reduces this).

110

Saloni Dash @dashsaloni.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

In this paper, we study how AI-paraphrased messages can enhance information campaigns. We look at how CopyPasta - a single message crafted by adversarial actors & shared repeatedly at scale --- can be paraphrased using LLMs to generate repetitive, non-identical messages i.e., AIPasta.

140

Reposted by Saloni Dash

Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Inspired by @wimlds.bsky.social , I looked for a "Women in Machine Learning" starter pack and couldn't find one. So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗 go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN

53406136

Reposted by Saloni Dash

Mert Can Bayar @mertcanbayar.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Great news! CIP now has a starter pack that showcases our current and past team members! Give them a follow!

16017

Reposted by Saloni Dash

Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is one of those videos that you could work on forever, but suddenly it felt very important to make it, so I finally did: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn...

youtube.com

Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

1893841985