It can’t be turned off. Computer says no. Skynet says amen.

A new microsite dropped.
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers.
Which of you did this c'mon, hilarious.
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JOB: lecturer/assistant professor in global film and media studies.

5yr contract, salary scale €64,753-€102,538, closes noon (Irish time) on October 20th.

pls share and lmk if you have any questions!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU194/l...

Excellent opening keynote at the inaugural Search Engines and Society (#SEASON2025) conference in Hamburg by the great @spielkamp.bsky.social from @algorithmwatch.org – such important work.

Liveblog here, with more to come (including our paper tomorrow):

Our contribution to understanding the fractured reality of the Russo-Ukrainian War. We found substantive misalignment in the event selection of British and Russian news outlets.

Behind the Enemy News: issue salience in the Russo-Ukrainian War

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our contribution to the automation vs augmentation debate.

Strategising with generative AI: Productivity gains in social media marketing

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Here is our study that offers some validation to the amplification hypothesis (Phillips 2018) and the related, but perhaps less studied, audience capture hypothesis (Weiss and Winter 2018).

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Finally out our experimental study on how ChatGPT can reinforce beliefs as incorrect information provided by the service goes unchecked and unverified by users.
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Our Centre membes @toledobastos.bsky.social, @paraickerrigan.bsky.social and colleague Chirsto Jacobs have released a new publications on ChatGPT and the
"incorrect but proattitudinal information that remains unchecked and unverified by the users."
Access the article on the link below!

The grammar of influence operations and romance scams is quickly becoming the same. It’s not the Internet you dreamed of but it’s the Internet we have.

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Finally out our experimental study on how ChatGPT can reinforce beliefs as incorrect information provided by the service goes unchecked and unverified by users.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

ONLINE FIRST! How have Facebook’s News Feed algorithm changes (2011-2020) impacted user engagement with news content? This study by Naoise McNally and @toledobastos.bsky.social finds that changes to the algorithm reduced user engagement with news content.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Facebook News Feed is not a black box. Changes to the algorithm can reduce user engagement with news content, particularly with hard news content.

The News Feed is Not a Black Box: A Longitudinal Study of Facebook’s Algorithmic Treatment of News.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

even though the idea and the intention are good, i don't understand how this will help to deal with climate deniers.

here is one text about disinformation as a narrative by prof @toledobastos.bsky.social and marc tuters if you want to know more about it:

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Delighted to share this paper with my PhD advisor @toledobastos.bsky.social , now published open access in New Media & Society.

Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....