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Stefanie Sirén-Heikel

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Doctoral/Project Researcher 🕊️@helsinkiuni.bsky.social Inter(dis)secting #journalism #AI #sociotech Big picture, middle ground, grey area. Rev2. Views mine.

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Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 11d

📚Libraries are just the best. Quite thrilled that the books by @bcmerchant.bsky.social, @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social, and @karenhao.bsky.social are available at the Helsinki city library, all three with a wait list! 👏🏻🙌🏼 @hel.fi @kirjastoseura.bsky.social

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 8h

It would also be super interesting to see more e-versions in motorbikes and boat engines. Silent boat engines would be huge as well for the sea and lake habitat.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 19h

Sorry @aarnegranlund.bsky.social for hijacking your thread.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, we are picking the best parts of becoming more European! Ah, who wants kids in restaurants.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 19h

Agree.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 19h

But I also have issues with motorists that leave their cars parked in the middle of the street without blinkers, and in the worst case leave them there on streets where you can’t pass. This is weird new FU phenomenon I’ve seen in thee city, which baffles me. Like you’re not alone in traffic.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 19h

But I have to say, I do have issues with Speedo cyclist that don’t use the bell or sign and don’t understand the physics of air movement when you speed by kids at 35kmh. They’re not helping.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 19h

I guess it’s probably also viewed as elitist by many.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 20h

Although I find it hard that bicycling is a leftist thing though, especially commuter bicycling. Isn’t our president also an avid cyclist? Maybe that’s why the petition has taken fire.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 20h

One could argue that the tax break has been a successful way to boost small business and Finnish made products, cutting emissions, increasing overall health and that way cutting future health care costs. But apparently that’s not what we’re aiming for.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 1d

True, I guess I’m trying to think positively here, as I doubt that we can stop all students from doing this anyway. I mean, we have abundant cases of adults without subject matter knowledge that do this all the time, unfortunately.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 1d

It is. And that’s what we usually check when evaluating at universities. And that’s precisely what LLM:s try to aid with. So if you have a task like that, you have to be able to show that you have the content knowledge.

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Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 1d

In a sense level 4 becomes reverse learning, because in order to be able to evaluate you have to have the expertise to do so, which will put you on a quite extensive trek. Ex seeing a AI generated matrix of Linz definition of fascism and then figuring out what Linz meant.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 1d

Näissä lienee sama ongelma kun mitä esim Google-hauissa on ollut jo aikoja (Safiya Noble esim hyvä avaamaan) eli vastaan tulee sitä, mitä myös muut käyttävät. Ongelmat esiintyvät myös kun käytetään eri termejä, ja osa tippuu pois, koska ei tunneta kenttää. www.normaltech.ai/p/could-ai-s...

Could AI slow science?

Confronting the production-progress paradox

www.normaltech.ai

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Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 1d

Ping @ohmyshambles.bsky.social

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Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

$We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.$

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Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 1d

Vanhoja perinteitä kunnioittaen www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/h...

How the Government Came to Decide the Color of Your Food

A business historian explains America's commitment to regulating the appearance of everything from margarine to canned peas

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Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention that individuals respond so differently, just like at “eating time”. Some will nibble and leave early, and others have massive issues with stopping. Also, I’d like to add gamification to the discussion, which can make nice places into horror houses quick.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 1d

“Eliminate from existence”? Oh wow.

Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 1d

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Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 1d

Saa nähdä. Onhan tässä mahdollinen skenario että seuraavan hallituskauden jälkeen nähdään Trump2.0-tyylinen comeback, jos äänestäjät pettyvät.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 2d

sociology and anthropology are dangerous to them, because those fields help us understand the power dynamics, ethics, and human cost of what the industries they like better are doing.
Performing arts is hugely important for the economy, but it doesn't benefit them directly.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 2d

I can see this in Fallout.

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · 2d

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨Journalists have long claimed the domain of valid knowledge. In this article, Jakob Ohme and I explored, does journalism believe that this distribution, as many other things have been, be replicated by Chatbots? #commsky
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PINGA...

ChatBots as Artificial Intermediaries? Adaptation to Artificial Intelligence in Newsrooms

Journalists have long claimed authority regarding the distribution of valid knowledge and hence, have discursively placed themselves in an intermediary role between audiences and the information th...

www.tandfonline.com

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