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LK Seiling
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DE/EN. 📍 Potsdam / Berlin
coordination of @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social, various research at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
among other things: http://zusammenfuergleichstellung.de
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LK Seiling @lkseiling.bsky.social · Sep 24
Für alle, die keine Zeit für ~36 Seiten und über 100 Fußnoten im Policy Paper haben, habe ich im Interview mit dem @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social kurz erklärt worum es im #DSA geht, welche Rolle Forschungsdatenzugang (#DSA40) spielt und was schulterzuckende US-Plattformen damit zu tun haben ⬇️
weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Sep 24
Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor unseres neusten Policy Papers, wie das inmitten geopolitischer Spannungen mit den USA funktionieren kann. #DSA40
Zum Interview 👉 buff.ly/5zISV6z
Was, wenn die Plattformen einfach mit den Schultern zucken?
Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen, großteils US-amerikanischer, zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor eines neuen…
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
lkseiling.bsky.social
Anyone interested in drafting an Art. 40(4) DSA access request to make use of this moment? Looks like a great chance to figure out, how the @grok account fits into X' internal governance/moderation structures.
January 13, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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socialmedialab.ca
"Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok." www.wired.com/story/x-grok...
Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
The Guardian doing inexplicable voluntary free public relations work for a corporation profiting from sexual abuse by headlining this as the image gen being "turned off". It isn't off: they've just monetised it. What the fuck are we doing here people, come on.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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parismarx.com
liked undressing any woman or child on the platform? throw us some cash and you can keep doing it
January 9, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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freiheitsrechte.org
Gleich gehts los auf dem #39c3: Simone und Jürgen ziehen in „Hacking Karlsruhe - 10 years later“ nach zehn Jahren GFF Bilanz. Hier gehts zum Stream: streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/fuse
Fuse – 39C3: Power Cycles Streaming
Live streaming from the 39th Chaos Communication Congress
streaming.media.ccc.de
December 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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jmaris.me
#trump has been accusing the #eu of #censorship via its #digitalservicesact, but is any of what they are saying true?

Let's investigate 🧵🔽
#eupol #uspol
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
lkseiling.bsky.social
Did you know that the new European Omnibus threatens research based on data donations?

We wrote an open letter highlighting the problematic amendment (see below).

Please consider reading and signing it. If the amendment goes through, this might well be the end of data donation research...
dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social · Nov 25
We've published an Open Letter urging EU policymakers to reject the Digital Omnibus' proposed Amendment to Article 12(5) GDPR, which would undermine citizens' data access rights & the researchers who depend on them for #DataDonation research.
Read & sign: shorturl.at/e1mr4 - your signature matters.
the background depicts the proposed amendment, the foreground reads "Open Letter: The Amendment to Article 12, paragraph 5 GDPR in the Omnibus Proposal Undermines Evidence-Based Policymaking"
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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techpolicypress.bsky.social
We recently concluded a special article series, “Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data,” in collaboration with the Knight-Georgetown Institute, in which experts explored why access to public platform data is critical. Here’s a snapshot: (1/9)
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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markus.reuter.netzpolitik.org
Die Grünen sind nur Bürgerrechtspartei, wenn sie nicht in der Regierung sind. www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...
Trotz Kritik: Ab wann die BW-Polizei eine Palantir-Software nutzen darf
Trotz viel Kritik und einer Petition hat der Landtag das Polizeigesetz geändert und die Nutzung der Datenanalyse-Software Palantir beschlossen.
www.swr.de
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
@lkseiling.bsky.social & @markscott.bsky.social plea in @techpolicypress.bsky.social for a new data access regime emerging from a "generation of decentralized platforms that treat data transparency not as a regulatory burden but as a civic and scientific good"

www.techpolicy.press/in-critical-...
In Critical Condition – How To Stabilize Researcher Data Access? | TechPolicy.Press
Mark Scott and LK Seiling discuss the struggle for researcher access to social media data and an alternative future where transparency is seen as a civic good.
www.techpolicy.press
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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eryk.bsky.social
The most transparent, de-gamified way to do social media would be a “more like this / less like this” interface that nobody else sees. The “like” is pointless here anyway, while sharing is everything.
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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parismarx.com
two for one, nice 😎
November 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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sachlichepolitik.bsky.social
"Gegen vier Uhr morgens drangen Be­am­t:in­nen in die Wohnung der syrischen Familie Seleman ein, führten die Geschwister Rouaa (24) und Ibrahim (28) ab und setzten sie in ein Flugzeug. Dabei sollten beide eine Ausbildung antreten. Der Flüchtlingsrat Schleswig-Holstein nennt das „Behördenwahnsinn“.
Abschiebung trotz Ausbildungsvertrag: Aus dem Bett geholt, ins Flugzeug gesetzt
Rouaa und Ibrahim hatten ihre Ausbildungsverträge unterschrieben und hätten damit bis zum Abschluss bleiben dürfen. Trotzdem wurden sie abgeschoben.
taz.de
October 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
lkseiling.bsky.social
The key terms here are:
1) burdensome procedures
2)burdensome tools

While the findings themselves are not public, let's take a closer look 🧵👇
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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s0hw.bsky.social
I’ll be presenting this work at #CSCW2025 in Bergen on Tuesday at 2:30PM! We will be part of the session “Core Concepts in Privacy Research” (in the Bekken room) chaired by @emtseng.bsky.social ☺️
acm-cscw.bsky.social ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social · Oct 14
Decentralized social media lets people build custom communities, but what happens when communities interact? New #CSCW2025 work by @s0hw.bsky.social, Priyanka Nanayakkara, and Yan Shvartzshnaider explores how trust — and frictions — shape expectations on the #Fediverse
Who do you trust with your social media data when no one (or everyone) is in charge?
Social media continues to be plagued by concerns around data harvesting, manipulation, and moderation policies on centralized platforms run…
tinyurl.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
lkseiling.bsky.social
The parsing code and info on the schema based on Activity Streams 2.0 we suggested: gitlab.weizenbaum-institut.de/lukas.seilin...

@lionw.bsky.social's latest paper on data donations: doi.org/10.12758/mda... (follow him for more to come soon!)
lionw.bsky.social Lion Wedel @lionw.bsky.social · Oct 10
#DigitalNewsDynamics research group present #datadonationsymposium2025
@lkseiling.bsky.social and Quentin Bukold on an Ontology for digital trace data, me on data donation behavior, and @dscheykopp.bsky.social on our experience with #deinfeeddeinewahl.
October 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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socialmedialab.ca
"Instagram head says company is not using your microphone to listen to you (with AI data, it won’t need to)" techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/i...
October 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
lkseiling.bsky.social
Für alle, die keine Zeit für ~36 Seiten und über 100 Fußnoten im Policy Paper haben, habe ich im Interview mit dem @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social kurz erklärt worum es im #DSA geht, welche Rolle Forschungsdatenzugang (#DSA40) spielt und was schulterzuckende US-Plattformen damit zu tun haben ⬇️
weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Sep 24
Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor unseres neusten Policy Papers, wie das inmitten geopolitischer Spannungen mit den USA funktionieren kann. #DSA40
Zum Interview 👉 buff.ly/5zISV6z
Was, wenn die Plattformen einfach mit den Schultern zucken?
Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen, großteils US-amerikanischer, zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor eines neuen…
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
September 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
👉 Just published: "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies" - Book of Abstracts of the Weizenbaum Conference 2025. #WIConf25

➡️ doi.org/10.34669/WI.... 🔗
Cover of the publication
September 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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eryk.bsky.social
Haven't read this paper yet, but something has been on my mind: because diffusion and LLMs were more "discovered" than "invented," the explanations given for how they work, even by folks in the industry building them, are assumptions. Those stories drive AI narratives, and they're usually wrong.
yoavgo.bsky.social Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social · Aug 27
When reading AI reasoning text (aka CoT), we (humans) form a narrative about the underlying computation process, which we take as a transparent explanation of model behavior. But what if our narratives are wrong? We measure that and find it usually is.

Now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.16599
Humans Perceive Wrong Narratives from AI Reasoning Texts
A new generation of AI models generates step-by-step reasoning text before producing an answer. This text appears to offer a human-readable window into their computation process, and is increasingly r...
arxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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thecoalition.bsky.social
Today, we’re proud to share the Coalition’s new report: The State of Independent Technology Research: Power in Numbers

It's an offering to our community and all researchers doing public interest work–a reflection of collective strength, solidarity and persistence in the face of adversity. (1/2)
August 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social
We already have over 100 sign-ups but a few spots are still available for Day 1 of the Data Access Days on research access to platform data under the Digital Services Act (DSA) — happening on 25 September 2025.

Join us in Berlin! 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
#DSA40 #DigitalServicesAct
August 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
lkseiling.bsky.social
This newsletter does not focus on the ongoing sabre-rattling from across the Atlantic. Instead, we recap all the work we've been doing since the last issue and examples and opportunities for constructive collective engagement around the DSA.
Read here: dsa40collaboratory.eu/newsletters/...
August 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM