2025-12-07
The most human place on the Internet... Or is it? — Great story at @wired.com about the challenges faced by Reddit moderators and users due to AI content. — Quotes @travislloydphd.bsky.social and our research. — www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...
Wired
Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content
Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.
2025-12-06
The most human place on the Internet... Or is it? — Great story at @wired.com about the challenges faced by Reddit moderators and users due to AI content. — Quotes @travislloydphd.bsky.social and our research. — www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...
Wired
Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content
Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits. Bluesky: @drsmith , @rodn...
2023-05-15
A wonderful writeup of our recent work (led by @maurice_jks). You got to read (or skip) to end for the closing quote from @LydiaChilton https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Research finds that AI assistants may be able to influence users without them knowing, akin to humans swaying one another through collaboration and social norms
2023-05-14
A wonderful writeup of our recent work (led by @maurice_jks). You got to read (or skip) to end for the closing quote from @LydiaChilton https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Research finds that AI assistants may be able to influence users without them knowing, akin to humans swaying one another through collaboration and social norms
AI assistants may be able to change our views without our realizing it. Says one expert: 'What's interesting here is the subtlety.'
2021-03-22
Yes, I did contribute to this, and there are many great and important questions in there. But I am also a bit jaded about these hearings. Expect nothing but political and corporate theatre. The CEO are master presenters, too well-coached. Qs will be political. We won't learn much https://twitter.com/...
Just Security
A list of questions that experts think CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google should be asked during the March 25 House committee hearing on misinformation
2020-02-19
“We define “AI-Mediated Communication” (AI-MC) as communication between people in which a computational agent operates on behalf of a communicator by modifying, augmenting, or generating messages to accomplish communication or interpersonal goals” https://twitter.com/...
VICE
An Indian election candidate created multiple deepfakes of his own video with him speaking different languages to access voters, reaching ~15M WhatsApp users
Nilesh Christopher / VICE :