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We can't ever have nice things
Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...
November 26, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Trouble in or rather before Paradise.
1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network.

As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.
November 26, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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The BlueSky team created a great tool to help newcomers: starter packs.

Here a quick starter pack for #complexity and network scientists + feeds to quickly join the community! #NetSky

Please, help to share (and if you are not in the list, get in touch and I will add you)

go.bsky.app/KMfiTU2
November 12, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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It's great to see the massive wave of people coming to 🦋.
Here's my first stab at a Computational Social Science starter pack:
go.bsky.app/2m6iQ68

Go check out similar lists to bootstrap your network:
bsky.app/starter-pack...
bsky.app/starter-pack...

Wonder if these lists could be merged somehow..
November 13, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Great read. Will the day come when people just say "the output was..."?
For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence".

The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them.

Hope you will check it out!

www.science.org/doi/full/10....
The metaphors of artificial intelligence
A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...
www.science.org
November 17, 2024 at 5:45 AM
Good to know, cc @alvestrand
November 17, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Same old?
If you’re new to Bluesky, this is a really helpful thread that explains how to use this platform:
🦋 WELCOME TO BLUESKY! I recommend exploring our custom feeds, which are a little like hashtags but more interesting. We have them for academic and professional subjects, sports, cities, hobbies (e.g., gardening, baking), and many more. Search them in the sidebar under Feeds. 🧵
November 15, 2024 at 11:28 PM