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Ewa Masłowska

@ewam.bsky.social
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Associate Prof @U of Illinois | Media psychology, communication | Digital persuasion, personalization, engagement | 🇪🇺 🧗‍♀️🚴‍♀️🐾

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Alvin Zhou @alvinyxz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🎉 New editorial: "Be Careful What You Prompt For: Generative AI in Computational Communication Research." It opens our special issue of 12 open-access papers, co-edited with @wrahool.bsky.social and @ewam.bsky.social 🧵 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
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Be Careful What You Prompt For: Generative AI in Computational Communication Research | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Abstract Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has field-level implications for computational communication research (CCR), not only by expanding methodological repertoires, but also by reshaping...
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 04/03/2025
"TikTok investigated over use of children's data" www.bbc.com/news/article...
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TikTok investigated by UK watchdog over use of children's data
It will look into how the social media platform uses the data of 13 to 17-year-olds to recommend content.
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Ewa Masłowska @ewam.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Yes, delegating cognitive & creative tasks to AI may affect our critical thinking & creative skills. But we're also outsourcing empathy, which may affect our social skills & wellbeing.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We wrote a paper about why such practices are not only pseudoscientific and unethical, but should also pay off financially on a par with consulting tarot cards: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
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The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions
Machine learning has a pseudoscience problem. In this perspective, the authors explore the recent resurgence of deep learning-assisted physiognomy and argue that pseudoscientific and socially harmful ...
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Ewa Masłowska @ewam.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This is very bad news for Poland and other countries classified as tier 2 by the US administration. Interesting how the EU countries aren't treated in a uniform manner, which may lead to divisions with tech rich vs poor countries.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 13/01/2025
We've also included some helpful guidance on what you can do to prevent advertising surveillance, including at the mobile device level. “If you disable the app tracking, your data has not been shared,” @fs0c131y.com told TechCrunch. Ad-blockers are your friend! techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/g...
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Data broker Gravy Analytics confirms a data breach after a hacker leaked millions of location records
The company confirmed the breach after a hacker posted millions of location data records online.
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Ewa Masłowska @ewam.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Is AGI really coming this year? See this super interesting🧵below. Also, notice the new definition of AGI by OpenAI (after Forbes): “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work” 😅 The strategy schools so urgently need to focus on is critical thinking.
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AGI Is Coming In 2025. Schools Urgently Need A Strategy
Artificial General Intelligence is on its way in 2025. What does this mean for schools and the education system?
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Ewa Masłowska @ewam.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
This 👇 The crazy amount of info we give companies is enough for ad targeting. Also, issues like device battery drainage, low sound quality, data processing costs, legal & financial liability, etc.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Again, a decade from now "AI skills" will be a commodity, & the scarce resource in the labor market will (once again) be individuals who can think, write, analyze, & communicate, as it has been forever and always. And we'll still be fighting tired, age-old battles defending the liberal arts.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University
Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...
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Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com · 18/11/2024
Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress. Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
One of the weirder scholarly practices regarding generative AI that seems to have been normalized is citing chatbots. I say normalized because many univs & scholarly associations recommend it as an element of proper scholarship. But it doesn't make sense when you consider what a citation means. 1/
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Ewa Masłowska @ewam.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is an important 🧵 Also, the article from 404media.
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Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'
A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.
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Richard Ostler @rostler.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
What worries me is the damage to Research integrity and public trust. Despite the promise of FAIR, and fine words in funder and journal policies, the data and code, the foundations of reproducibility remain 'On request'. Meanwhile retraction rates are soaring www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧵1/2
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More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record
The number of articles being retracted rose sharply this year. Integrity experts say that this is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Ewa Masłowska @ewam.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The US is the only G20 nation without a comprehensive data privacy framework & that may not change anytime soon. It's on the individuals to investigate platforms' TOS & make informed decisions. This is a helpful series on the biggest AI platforms.
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How big tech uses your data to train its AI
AI makers need massive amounts of data and some of it is yours.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
For the lovely 🦋 folks: #postdoc jobs: We have exciting post doc positions open in the U of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research priority area "Human(e) AI". Applicants from eg communication, law, logic, and philosophy welcome! 🗓️: deadline December 13 Share 🫶 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...
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Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in Human(e) AI
Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in Human(e) AI
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Ewa Masłowska @ewam.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Dear #CommSky, please consider submitting your work to this SI and don't hesitate to reach out w questions.
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Jonjust @jonjust.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Not a good uptrend
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Subhayan Mukerjee @wrahool.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
🚨We (@alvinyxz.bsky.social, @ewam.bsky.social) are editing a special issue for Computational Communication Research on GenAI! Submissions on GenAI as comm phenomena or research tools are welcome: z.umn.edu/ccrgenai Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24 Full papers: Apr 30 '25 @computationalcommunication.org
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GenAI_CfP.pdf
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/11/2024
One of the most insulting parts of this is how the bot is built to say things like “oh that’s really interesting,” as if it actually had curiosity or the ability to be inspired.
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Interactive AI Interviews are going to become a new norm, expert says: It's ‘here, it's real, it's incorporated'
One expert says real-time responsive AI interviews will be the norm by 2025.
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Jen the Tired RN @jenthetiredrn.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Well, this is quite horrifying. 🩺 #MedSky apnews.com/article/ai-a...
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Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whispher is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.
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Ewa Masłowska @ewam.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
We have known for some time now that the anthropomorphizing features of ai agents can be dangerous, but ai companies keep ignoring the risk and including them in their designs. And, they're even pushing a narrative of ai being like humans, e.g. sentient, able to reason and empathize.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
In the Google search trial, the court's reliance on evidence of how consumer behavior is shaped by what products and services are available by default marks a pivotal moment at the intersection of antitrust and behavioral economics, writes Zander Arnao: www.techpolicy.press/google-searc...
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Google Search Antitrust Ruling is a Triumph for Behavioral Economics | TechPolicy.Press
The importance of insights about consumer behavior in the ruling mark the intersection of antitrust and behavioral economics, writes Zander Arnao.
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Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
I guess we’re doing this again. It is enough for LLMs to be incredibly powerful and flexible tools for analyzing and summarizing text. We don’t have to fool ourselves into thinking that they can reconstruct the mental processes of the humans who produced the text. They are already impressive!
For example, one could estimate levels
of individualism or intergroup prejudice across time by administering psychological scales to samples of simulated participants from adjacent historical eras. And one could generate
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