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Vered Shwartz

@veredshwartz.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at @cs.ubc.ca‬ and ‪@vectorinstitute.ai‬ working on Natural Language Processing. Book: lostinautomatictranslation.com

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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The review quality in my batch as an AC as well as for our submissions is actually mostly decent. I'm especially appreciative of this given that we all ended up doing extra (and unplanned) service in this cycle. #EMNLP2026
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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Spotlight: Identifying and Localizing Video Generation Errors Using VLMs @eccv.bsky.social #ECCV2026 @adityachinchure.bsky.social @sahithya.bsky.social Pushkar Shukla @veredshwartz.bsky.social and Leonid Sigal
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My biggest nightmare is vibe coding in aviation
An in flight entertainment system showing place holders for the flight number, origin, and destination, the departure time in the destination time zone and the arrival time in the origin time zone.
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UBC News @news.ubc.ca · 25/02/2026
"I think it should be part of the solution, I just think that it’s really tricky to draw the lines of what kind of content should be flagged versus not." @veredshwartz.bsky.social on AI safety as OpenAI asked to share info on Tumbler Ridge shooter's AI interactions buff.ly/3c3VMMu
B.C. Premier David Eby, seen here in a file photo during a visit to Tumbler Ridge, is urging the federal government to create a national standard for when AI companies must report users plotting violence on their platforms. Credit: Ben Nelms/CBC
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
In this amazing multidisciplinary collaboration, we report our early experience with the @openclaw-x.bsky.social ->
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UBC News @news.ubc.ca · 18/02/2026
If you need to persuade someone, maybe let AI do the talking. @veredshwartz.bsky.social discusses her work exploring persuasive #AI via @npr.org
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Vered Shwartz, University of British Columbia - - How Persuasive Is AI?
If you need to persuade someone, maybe let AI do the talking.
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Check out my conversation with Donnie Maclary on the The STEM Career Coach podcast (@weareairswift)! We talked about AI and why we should focus more on immediate risks from AI adoption than hypothetical existential risks. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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UBC News @news.ubc.ca · 27/11/2025
"They don't have any notion of the truth … it just generates the statistically most likely next word." @veredshwartz.bsky.social discusses #LLM hallucinations after #Grok claimed Mark Carney has never been Prime Minister via @cdnpress.bsky.social buff.ly/SHtisJ9 @cs.ubc.ca
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Fact File: X's AI chatbot claims Carney isn't PM, Russian video set in Toronto
The artificial intelligence chatbot Grok made several errors over the past few weeks when asked to verify information on the X platform. In one instance, it miscaptioned video of a
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I just published "AI Language Technologies are Powerful—But Not Without Limits" cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/ai-l... via @universitypress.cambridge.org
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AI Language Technologies are Powerful—But Not Without Limits - Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press
Imagine waking up in the morning. You read your emails with the morning coffee and use Gmail’s autocomplete feature to compile the answers. Before leaving the house, you ask Siri for the weather forec...
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Do you have a profile on Goodreads? You can enter for a chance to win a free copy of "Lost in Automatic Translation". Please share! #bookgiveaway #freebook www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
✍️ Write a book review for Babel! Review opportunities: 📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U 📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving? 📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation 📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
Write a book review for Babel
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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The recent UBC interview with Dr. Vered Shwartz (@veredshwartz.bsky.social), Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, shares important reflections on how AI chatbots can influence users’ decisions and behaviour. 🤖💬 (1/7🧵)
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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🎙 In our new episode, we spoke with @veredshwartz.bsky.social (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia) and highlighted her book Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies. (1/7🧵)
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It was such a pleasure talking to Jekaterina and Malikeh about cultural biases in AI. Thank you for hosting me!
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I'm super excited to update that "Lost in Automatic Translation" is now available as an audiobook! 🔊📖 It's currently on Audible: www.audible.ca/pd/B0FXY8VQX5 Stay tuned (lostinautomatictranslation.com) for more retailers, including Amazon, iTunes, etc., and public libraries! 📚
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Come work with us!
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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We’re excited to feature @veredshwartz.bsky.social , Asst Prof at @cs.ubc.ca, CIFAR AI Chair @vectorinstitute.ai, and author of lostinautomatictranslation.com, in the next @wiair.bsky.social episode.
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CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
People more influenced by advice from AI than fellow humans, UBC study finds
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People more influenced by advice from AI than fellow humans, UBC study finds
Dr. Vered Shwartz, research lead and assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, said she wanted to quantify to what extent AI chatbots were persuasive after noticing an uptick in AI scams and the technology being used maliciously.
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EunJeong Hwang @ejhwang.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Theory of Mind can make LLMs better at dialogue: more strategic, goal-oriented, enabling long-horizon adaptation! In our new paper, we introduce ToMA, a dialogue lookahead training framework that enables the LLMs to generate mental states that are maximally useful for achieving dialogue goals.🧵👇
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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 23/09/2025
@veredshwartz.bsky.social author of ‘Lost in Automatic Translation’, explores the opportunities and pitfalls of language technologies, from automatic translation tools to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. 🤖 Read the full interview 🔗 cup.org/4n8ilt4
Author Vered Shwartz discussing about her book 'Lost in Automatic Translation' standing in front of a purple gradient background.
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Outlook spell checker is suggesting that I write "I attached me slides" instead of "I attached my slides". #AI_fail
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I just published Are we expecting too much of LLMs? An analysis of prompts in NLP papers medium.com/p/are-we-exp...
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Are we expecting too much of LLMs? An analysis of prompts in NLP papers
I’ve been having this uneasy feeling that we — as in the NLP community — are overly relying on LLMs to perform any text processing…
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"Lost in Automatic Translation" is finally out! Get it here: lostinautomatictranslation.com
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*SEM @starsem.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
*SEM 2025 final call for ARR COMMITMENTS! Final chance to commit to *SEM 2025, co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou!! ARR COMMITMENT deadline is August 22, 2025. Give your strong-but-overlooked EMNLP paper the second chance it deserves! 😉 starsem2025.github.io/cfp #NLP #NLProc
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Call for Papers
Official website of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 15/08/2025
Questions if Google Translate and ChatGPT will help us master foreign languages and better understand one another, or make language learning obsolete. Lost in Automatic Translation by @veredshwartz.bsky.social, Coming Soon cup.org/45lmrI2 #LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #AI #LLMs #ArtificalIntelligence
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I'm not sure yet if I'll make it to #IJCAI2025 because of the planned Air Canada strike, but if you're attending, you can order my book with the IJCAI discount (30% off and free shipping) through mid-September: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
"Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies" by Vered Shwartz.
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UBC Computer Science @cs.ubc.ca · 01/08/2025
Congratulations to Shruthi Chockkalingam, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Raymond Ng & @veredshwartz.bsky.social for receiving an Outstanding Paper Award at the Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) Workshop at the 2025 Association for Computational Linguistics Conference! #ACL2025
UBC CS Professor Dr. Vered Shwartz and UBC CS student Shruthi Chockkalingam with Outstanding Paper Award at ACL2025 Vienna
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I just finished listening to the audiobook of "Empire of AI" by @karenhao.bsky.social (highly recommend!). The copyright statement in the credits explicitly mentions it's not allowed to use the book for training AI. I love it and will ask my producer to do the same 🙂
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 25/06/2025
“My main concern at the moment is the widespread adoption, reliance and trust in LLMs, despite a very serious technical limitation — the hallucination problem.” @isaacphannay.bsky.social interviews "Lost in Automatic Translation" author @veredshwartz.bsky.social.
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AI May End Some Jobs. It Will Create Others | The Tyee
Computer science researcher Vered Shwartz says she’s taking AI hype with a grain of salt. A Tyee Q&A.
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I'm using ACX to produce an audiobook (my publisher only does print and ebooks). I posted a text sample for narrators to audition. 80% of the auditions I got were from fake, AI narrators. 1/4
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I just published "This book will not be used to train LLMs": lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book-will-not-be-used-to-train-llms-1
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This book will not be used to train LLMs — Lost in Automatic Translation
Recently, AI companies have been negotiating with publishers about using their books to train LLMs. Some publishers reached out to ask authors for permission to license their books, offering some fo...
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Adi @adityachinchure.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Unexpected events grab human attention & push AI models beyond their training data. 🤔 How well do VLMs reason about these critical, novel scenarios? 🦢 Introducing Black Swan @ #CVPR2025 (Poster: Sun 10:30am #304) Co-lead: @sahithya.bsky.social w/ @veredshwartz.bsky.social 🔗 blackswan.cs.ubc.ca
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Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events
Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Starting in a few minutes - we have an exciting line up of talks, posters, and a panel! Join us at room 104E. 🌍 #CVPR2025
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MAPS - CVPR 2026 Workshop @mapscvpr.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🗓️ Save the date! It's official: The VLMs4All Workshop at #CVPR2025 will be held on June 12th! Get ready for a full day of speakers, posters, and a panel discussion on making VLMs more geo-diverse and culturally aware 🌐 Check out the schedule below!
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Simple example for how errors can creep into our papers through LLM use: I had a statistic for 2020. I googled about the same statistic for 2023. AI overview tells me the statistic for 2023 and provides a link to support the claim. The link is to a 2023 article citing the 2020 statistic.
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*SEM @starsem.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
*SEM 2025: Direct submissions deadline is now EXTENDED to June 13, 2025! *SEM will be co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou, China. It will be a hybrid event, virtual attendance possible (more info on this will be posted later). Full CFP: starsem2025.github.io/cfp #NLP #NLProc
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Call for Papers
Official website of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I guess that now that I have 1% of my Twitter followers follow me here 😅, I should announce it here too for those of you no longer checking Twitter: my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation" is coming out this July: lostinautomatictranslation.com. I'm very excited to share it with you!
Book cover - Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies. By Vered Shwartz. Publisher: Cambridge University Press.
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*SEM @starsem.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
*SEM 2025 final call for DIRECT SUBMISSIONS! starsem2025.github.io/cfp Direct submissions are due next week on May 30, 2025. We also accept papers via ARR commitment, due on August 22, 2025. Give your strong-but-overlooked ACL paper the second chance it deserves! 😉 #NLProc #NLP
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Call for Papers
Official website of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
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