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Philip Di Salvo @philipdisalvo.bsky.social · 1d

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... (@eff.org)

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat ...

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 1d

Deepfakes, désinformation et créativité : trois enjeux dans l’éducation à l’IA ohmybox.info/deepfakes-de...

Deepfakes, désinformation et créativité : trois enjeux dans l’éducation à l’IA

L’intelligence artificielle regroupe un ensemble de technologies qui influencent de manière croissante les pratiques sociales, culturelles et ...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 2d

Meta’s decision to ban ads about politics, elections, and social issues on their platforms like Facebook and Instagram in the EU is now implemented.

This is the new policy. Any ad about fx elections, civil rights, economy, health, climate, immigration, or foreign policy is now (presumably) banned.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 5d

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Paul Bradshaw @paulbradshaw.bsky.social · 6d

How to (not) write about numbers onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/09/30/h...

How to (not) write about numbers

Image by Andy Maguire | CC BY 2.0 If you’ve been working on a story involving data, the temptation can be to throw all the figures you’ve found into the resulting report — but the same …

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 7d

6) As early as 2018, the BBC was at the forefront of responsible AI integration with its Responsible Machine Learning initiative. This kind of leadership shows how individual news organisations can inspire others. www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/...

Responsible Machine Learning in the Public Interest

Developing machine learning and data-enabled technology in a responsible way that upholds BBC values.

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 7d

5) For meaningful collaboration between journalists and tech professionals, a shared understanding is essential. This requires specific training to foster computational thinking among journalists and journalistic thinking among technologists, enabling them to effectively communicate with each other.

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 7d

4) Some newsrooms have already taken steps to hire software engineers, data scientists and machine learning experts. These individuals are better placed to contribute to AI development and should be more directly involved, rather than relying solely on journalistic organisations.

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 7d

3) The pace of AI development is extremely fast. Journalists' organisations often lack the necessary resources, time or structures to keep up or respond effectively. This creates a gap between the evolution of the tools and any attempt to influence their development.

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 7d

2) Journalists are often not deeply engaged with technology, which makes it difficult to involve them meaningfully in the development of tools they don’t fully understand or feel confident using.

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 7d

The sixth main point looks good on paper, but seems rather unrealistic. 1) Journalists rely on tools not designed with journalism in mind, and it's a stretch to expect their organisations to meaningfully influence how such tools are developed, especially when built by major tech companies.

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European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) @efjeurope.bsky.social · 8d

#AI: The EFJ publishes its position on an ethical use of AI in journalism. Adopted today by its Steering Committee in Brussels, the EFJ advocates for AI that respects journalistic ethics, fair working conditions, and authors' rights.
#JournalismIsAPublicGood

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EFJ publishes its position on Artificial Intelligence in Journalism

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) publishes its position paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the future of journalism in Europe, after ...

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 15d

AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/23/1...

AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers

Some companies are working to remedy the issue.

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 17d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

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Liz Skalka @lizskalka.bsky.social · 20d

Aaron Parnas debuted on TikTok posting about pizza toppings and hair loss. Now, at 26, he's pivoted into journalism, landing interviews with leading Dems and becoming one of Substack's most popular creators—while accepting dark money. New @columjournreview.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/feature/aaro...

Aaron Parnas, the top “news” Substacker, is making his own journalism rules—and taking dark money.

Aaron Parnas, a twenty-six-year-old with a larger TikTok audience than some mainstream outlets and the most popular “news” Substack, is making his own journalism rules—and taking dark money.

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 19d

Generative AI and the German Far Right: Narratives, Tactics and Digital Strategies www.isdglobal.org/isd-publicat...

Generative AI and the German Far Right: Narratives, Tactics and Digital Strategies

This report examines how German far-right actors use generative AI, the narratives on which they concentrate, and the tactics they employ to disseminate this content.

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EDMO Belgium-Luxembourg @edmo-belux.bsky.social · 22d

Political Advertising on Social Media

EDMO Belux's recent study explores these big questions: How will these differences impact the future of political advertising online? And what does it mean for the transparency of these platforms?
Read more:
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#SocialMedia #PoliticalAdvertising

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European University Association (EUA) @eua.eu · 28d

Universities and their communities play an essential role in protecting and promoting academic freedom. 🛡️ 🤲 They must commit to making academic freedom a lived and daily reality.

Read EUA's position paper buff.ly/35qwaif

#AcademicFreedom

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 29d

Toronto indie mag pushes back against ‘AI-generated slop’.
Editors at The Grind caught seven articles for one special edition they suspected were AI fakes. j-source.ca/toronto-indi...

Toronto indie mag pushes back against ‘AI-generated slop’ - J-Source

Editors at The Grind caught seven articles for one special edition they suspected were AI fakes

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · Sep 8

Skeptik: A hybrid framework for combating potential misinformation in journalism, "often stemming from flawed reasoning and logical fallacies" and "poses significant challenges to public understanding and trust in news media."
arxiv.org/abs/2508.18499

Skeptik: A Hybrid Framework for Combating Potential Misinformation in Journalism

The proliferation of misinformation in journalism, often stemming from flawed reasoning and logical fallacies, poses significant challenges to public understanding and trust in news media. Traditional...

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard (...) critical thinking, expertise (...) and scientific integrity. " in Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia zenodo.org/records/1706...

Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

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 col...

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · Sep 5

Le fait émergent, ou (re)penser ce qui fait le fait - réflexion autour de mes travaux sur la factualité à l'heure des IA génératives à l'Université de Bergen. www.meta-media.fr/2025/08/01/l...

Le fait émergent, ou (re)penser ce qui fait le fait - Méta-media | La révolution de l'information

Génération n’est pas vérification. Si ce principe est fondamental pour comprendre les limites des modèles d’IA génératives, leur capacité à produire des contenus plausibles remet en question notre rap...

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · Sep 4

Vi sees neste år!

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · Sep 4

Le sommaire du numéro complet : shs.cairn.info/revue-i2d-in... Avec aussi un excellent article de @dteyssou.bsky.social à propos de la complexité croissante de la vérification des contenus en ligne.

I2D - Information, données & documents 2025/1 (Juillet)

Désinformation, véracité et traçabilité de l'information

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