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Apparently, even for the Big 4, auditing for DSA is hard 😒
@johnalbert
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First collection of #DSA compliance audits results
@johnalbert
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Surprise, surprise: who is auditing #VLOPs platforms for #DSA compliance?
Study by @johnalbert
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Great research presented by @cka, thanks to semantic analysis of Community Guidelines over time: yes, platforms do react to pressure.
See how the politicisation of #misinformation in politics (#FakeNews), then in health (Covid), now of #FreeSpeech, is directly visible in the number of rules that relate to the topics!
Very proud of our ongoing years-long @opentermsarchive partnership with @zemki that enables such findings 💞
#AoIR #PlatformGovernance

Very proud to see so visibly on this graph how the switch to @opentermsarchive enables researchers to gather significantly more data to understand and analyse #PlatformGovernance (see the increase in data points in 2022) ☺️
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“The longer community guidelines are and the less readable they appear to be.” — Mia Nahrgang
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Fascinating: we know very little of the ownership structure of Bytedance (#TikTok ), #BlueSky, or… #xAI.
#PlatformGovernance #AoIR

“We can map out platforms ownership from institutionally owned to oligarchic” — Paddy Leerssen
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“Filtering of #GenAI training datasets on #CommonCrawl data is often very basic. Example: C4, filtering out sources that contains naughty words. This leaves violence in, and removes a lot of LGBTQIA content.” — @tootbaack
Full paper presentation: https://mozilla.social/@tootbaack/111885437306039860
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Presentation with a slide stating: “key takeaway 3: LLM builders don't train their models directly on Common Crawl. Instead, they:
1. Select datasets from Common Crawl's archive
2. Filter extracted data to remove content undesirable for model training.
3. Train their models on the result
However very few LLM builders do all of this themselves”

“Conclusion: the way Common Crawl collects data and how open source AI projects filter it is similar to how companies like Google or Meta collect and filter the web crawl data they collect in-house”

“Most media objects in the coming years becoming increasingly hybridised, it would be difficult (if not impossible) to distinguish between human and #GenAI made outputs, including for the users themselves” — @gekker
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A presentation with a slide stating: “Most media objects in the coming years becoming increasingly hybridised, it would be difficult (if not impossible) to distinguish between human and AI made outputs, including for the users themselves”

“Most of the #GenAI usage today is not through chat interfaces but through this: Cursor. It enables people to code more easily, including people who don’t know how to code.”
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A person presenting on stage a screenshot of Cursor IDE

@alicetiara @mutalenkonde @juliaebner Here you can find AoIR’s Risky Research Guide, which we refer to in the video https://aoir.org/riskyresearchguide/ #research #aoir #researchmethods #internet

I only just now heard about the AI bot persuasion experiment carried out on Reddit users on the r/ChangeMyView subreddit.
This is the post in which the CMV mods let users know that they were experimented on without their knowledge: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving/

What do our #aoir #ethics people think about this?
#cmv #aoirethics

Submissions for the @AoIR 2025 Nancy Baym Book Award (for books published in 2024) are now open.

Submissions close 7 May 2025.

Details: https://aoir.org/2025nbbookaward #AoIR #AoIR2025

2025 Nancy Baym Book Award

We are pleased to call for nominations for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. This award recognizes the best scholarship of the Association of Internet Researchers, and highlights the breadth of work relating to the social and cultural dimensions of networked media.

To be eligible for the award:

The book must be authored or co-authored as a monograph and must explore a single topic (edited collections are not eligible).
All of the book’s authors must be current members of AoIR at the time of submission (May 7, 2025). Memberships may be purchased here: https://members.aoir.org/.
The book must have been published between January 1 and December 31, 2024.

Details: aoir.org/2025nbbookaward

Nominations for the 2025-2027 #AoIR Executive Committee are Now Open!

If you’re interested in helping shape the future of the Association of Internet Researchers, please consider running for the next AoIR Executive Committee.

We’re calling for nominations for: Vice-President; Treasurer; Secretary; three Open Seats; & Graduate Student Representative.

Nominations close on 2 April 2025.
(You must be a current, paid AoIR member to be nominated.)

For full details see: http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2025-March/194303.html

Nominations for the 2025-2027 AoIR Executive Committee are Now Open!

If you’re interested in helping shape the future of the Association of Internet Researchers, please consider running for the next AoIR Executive Committee.

We’re calling for nominations for: Vice-President; Treasurer; three Open Seats; and a Graduate Student Representative.

Nominations close on 2 April 2025.
(You must be a current, paid AoIR member to be nominated.)

For full details see: http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2025-March/194303.html

Thank you #Aoir folks for all the submissions, we're thrilled! Like Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga you all really want to come to Brazil. It's gonna be amazing! Be ready! Now we'll work hard for the reviews (after Carnival holidays) #Aoir2025

The Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT), at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, is hosting the next AoIR Flashpoint Symposium on 3-4 june 2025. #AoIR #GenerativeAI #PlatformGovernance

https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki-hosts-aoir-flashpoint-symposium-2025/

Das Lab Plattform-Governance, Medien und Technologie (PGMT), am Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI) der Universität Bremen, wird am 3. und 4. Juni 2025 das nächste AoIR Flashpoint Symposium ausrichten. #AoIR #GenerativeKI #PlatformGovernance

https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/zemki-richtet-aoir-flashpoint-symposium-2025-aus/

2) I know we all teach our children to value love, kindness, and compassion. While we often pollute those lessons by qualifying those pro social values (e.g., love this group but not that) and teach hate, I wonder if our LLMs would eventually “decide” those qualifications and hate are “noise” and the real patterns that describe humans is compassion and loving kindness.

That would be a good future indeed. So scholarly communities like #AoIR or #CHI , how do we get to a future like that? 8/8

“brain rot” being picked as Word of the Year and the whole talk about shitposting and skibidi toilet reminded me that in the early 00s we had two types of Internet slang that were massively popular in Brazil: miguxês & tiopes.

Miguxês was a widespread (and widely mocked) dialect that prob emerged in photo sharing blog service Fotolog and was associated with emocore girlies who emphasised cuteness by simulating baby talk AnD tYpInG LiKe ThIsXxXx
#AoIR #AoIR2025

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