Do you wish you could test a different social media algorithm? Now you can. Announcing the Prosocial Ranking Challenge. $60,000 in prize money -- and we will test five winning algorithms on real users and real platforms using a browser extension.

Up to $9M in funding for projects that attempt to restore public trust in American institutions - public schools, government bodies, the media, more.

I’ve spent 15 years designing software that handles information, 10 years as a journalist, 5 years as a conflict resolution researcher. Here’s everything I know about what it could mean to make AI politically “neutral” — and how to do it.

Can AI be politically neutral? It wouldn’t mean it never persuades anyone. It wouldn’t mean it’s “objective.” Here’s what it could mean — and a metric you could optimize LLMs to.

@ZebraFactCheck Yes, I did write that article. And yes, some fact checks were applied to any instance of a particular image or video. Increases effectiveness or censorship or both, depending on your perspective. Would be interesting to know the scale here.

So if the Twitter algorithm is open source, can we see the line of code that downranks tweets with links in them?

@PsychRabble Boycott report: “academic boycotts … can legitimately seek to protect and advance academic freedom and the fundamental rights of colleagues and students who are living and working under circumstances that violate academic freedom” Consistent with excerpt of Kalven in 2nd stmt

Read the paper, copy the method, but don't use those weights.

@francescamar6 Not a zine on that exactly but @better_conflict is related, and here’s some history — Jo Freeman writing about toxic feminist culture in 1973

@jamescham @Noahpinion Where is this quote from?

AI interior monologues are charming, but now imagine the liability that these logs create for a corporate AI that is told to maximize profits and has to make legal and moral decisions along the way. Cannot wait for that discovery process. 🍿

@jwolpert @molly0xFFF Follows the general pattern: Red tries to control offline spaces (libraries, schools) while Blue tries to control online spaces (platforms, comments)

TikTok is back. Anyone want to explain how this can possibly be legal?

@apilosov I’ve been writing about the destruction of trust for years as well. But tell me, what would satisfy your desire for vengeance?

@apilosov I’ve been saying the same thing the whole time dude

@apilosov The economics are a disaster. However there's still no other reliably reliable source of information. Everything that has been proposed to replace profession reporting is still garbage quality. Good information is a classical public good, hence under-produced.

@kevinnbass I have to say I’ve gained respect for you for calling out the Trump coin scam. Shows you have principles, not just grudges.

@armankhon IMO not that interesting. Yes a solid piece of technical work but without the value model (how are posts actually scored?) says next to nothing about what kind of content TT actually selects.

@apilosov Of course there was.