Hewers & Drawers 4 EVAH

(from today's FMM conference)

On the one hand, so many LLM talks here at #icse2025. But then when a speaker doesn’t mention it, the omission seems glaring. I think a lot of our (research) assumptions are being invalidated.

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm.

Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

#TechDebt is just around the corner and you do no want to miss the presentation of the 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼 on Monday 28 at 14:10! 💪
Zadia Codabux and Neil Ernst will share insights from the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on “Reframing Technical Debt”!
🌎 Check out the full program👇
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I managed to sew on 2 buttons this weekend, for the first time, and I'm unreasonably happy about it.

Hosting Ali Ramezani for a talk on real world machine learning here at Matrix Institute at #uvic