Emma Byrne PhD<p>Violence against children begets violent adults: </p><p>"Children model their parents’ behaviour and if physical violence is the norm to induce prosocial behaviour, then they will learn to use violence themselves as older children and adults."</p><p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7390231/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/</span><span class="invisible">PMC7390231/</span></a></p><p>If you don't know why in the Tucker Carlson I'm tooting this, cherish your ignorance...</p>
My notes on our recent paper in Nature Machine Intelligence about the double-edged sword of LLMs/GenAI: they make it easier to produce disinformation at scale, but also help fact checkers find and rebut that same disinformation. Another ratchet-turn in the disinfo arms race?
https://dcorney.com/thoughts/2024/08/28/factuality.html #NLP #genai
dcorney.comFactuality, LLMs and fact checking
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www.nature.comFactuality challenges in the era of large language models and opportunities for fact-checking | Nature Machine IntelligenceThe emergence of tools based on large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, has garnered immense public attention owing to their advanced natural language generation capabilities. These remarkably natural-sounding tools have the potential to be highly useful for various tasks. However, they also tend to produce false, erroneous or misleading content—commonly referred to as hallucinations. Moreover, LLMs can be misused to generate convincing, yet false, content and profiles on a large scale, posing a substantial societal challenge by potentially deceiving users and spreading inaccurate information. This makes fact-checking increasingly important. Despite their issues with factual accuracy, LLMs have shown proficiency in various subtasks that support fact-checking, which is essential to ensure factually accurate responses. In light of these concerns, we explore issues related to factuality in LLMs and their impact on fact-checking. We identify key challenges, imminent threats and possible solutions to these factuality issues. We also thoroughly examine these challenges, existing solutions and potential prospects for fact-checking. By analysing the factuality constraints within LLMs and their impact on fact-checking, we aim to contribute to a path towards maintaining accuracy at a time of confluence of generative artificial intelligence and misinformation. Large language models (LLMs) present challenges, including a tendency to produce false or misleading content and the potential to create misinformation or disinformation. Augenstein and colleagues explore issues related to factuality in LLMs and their impact on fact-checking.
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The perfect blend of #moral #philosophy and Looney Tunes. #humor
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@elithebearded good point #remix #mathstodon #mathmemes #
(variation of original https://twitter.com/scrunkycat/status/1822321459714306428)
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Who we are on the inside is not always how we are viewed on the outside.
Amazing interview with Mevan Babakar (friend and former boss!) about her childhood as a stateless refugee and how small acts of kindness can profoundly change our lives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5ny3
BBCOutlook - The child refugee and the big red bicycle - BBC SoundsHow a stranger’s small act of kindness had a giant impact on a young girl without a home
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And wonders will never cease: even the Daily Mail says #FuckTheFash
I've been playing Duolingo for nearly a year, and it still had the capacity to surprise me.
Welcome to the shitpost election
https://www.platformer.news/shitpost-election-harris-deepfake-vance-couch-memes/
"Someday, perhaps, platforms will once again face pressure to promote a more truthful version of the world around them." But not today, obvs.
#uspol
Platformer · Welcome to the shitpost electionForget what’s true and false. Did you hear about J.D. Vance and the couch?
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London Museum of Water & Steam launches urgent appeal to save their steam engines. With bonus cat plushie!
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/london-museum-of-water-steam-launches-urgent-appeal-to-save-their-steam-engines-74243/
ianVisits · London Museum of Water & Steam launches urgent appeal to save their steam engines
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Childless cat ladies, it’s time to fight monsters. Again.
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I wrote out a longer explanation for why I don't think there's any evidence that Elon deliberately blocked people from following the Harris campaign. There's no need to spread conspiracy theories that mirror the MAGA conspiracy theories about content moderation. www.techdirt.com/2024/07/24/n...
No, Elon Isn’t Blocking Kamala...
Techdirt · No, Elon Isn’t Blocking Kamala From Getting Followers, And Congress Shouldn’t InvestigateGather ’round, children, and let me tell you a tale of rate limiting, misinterpreted screenshots, and how half the internet lost its mind over a pretty standard Twitter error. This error was …
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The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice. The satellites that are still left, their orbits slowly decaying over millennia, dutifully relay the message. The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.
Somewhere in what used to be called Ohio, a pack of roombas, their local wind turbines giving out and creaking to a halt, begin searching for the next functional docking station. A washing machine in Argentina tweets: "anyone need to do a load 
" every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time. The replies are filled with AI thirstposters and their hypebots.
In North America, raccoons have quietly entered the bronze age, while baboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia. Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion. A weather balloon bobs and sways in the upper atmosphere, now almost entirely clear of lingering chloroflourocarbons, reporting conditions to weather stations long since destroyed in World War Five.
The Crab Nation are mostly hermits, but come out to greet their prophet every ten years on the 6th full moon of the year. A lone, curious octopus decides to observe this year's event, peering out at the festivities from her safe haven - the submerged, rusting hulk of an ancient Cybertruck. Then he appears: the hologram of Shia Lebouf powered by MetaAI. He beckons the octopus to follow. The crabs all start chittering excitedly. The time has come to invade Amazon HQ. The crows gather in huge numbers. They need more storage space for their Steam collections.
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I must not reply. Replying is the mind-killer. Replying is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face the bad take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the take has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.