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by Stefan M. Herzog

stefanherzog.bsky.social
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Bald könnten ALLE Chat-Nachrichten von den Behörden durchsucht werden – selbst ohne Verdacht! Das entscheiden *heute* die Minister*innen. Sag Nein zur Chatkontrolle! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...
Chatkontrolle stoppen!
Die EU-Kommission will Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp und Signal zwingen, alle privaten Nachrichten und Fotos in Echtzeit zu scannen. Angeblich zum Kinderschutz. In Wahrheit bedeutet die Chatkontrolle...
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sciencefeedback.bsky.social
🚨 New report out: the first cross-platform, cross-country baseline on misinformation in Europe

Based on large scale data analysis: ~2.6M posts (24B views) collected on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X & YouTube

science.feedback.org/first-measurement-disinformation-major-platforms-europe
What our first measurement says about disinformation on major platforms in Europe - Science Feedback
Science Feedback and partners have released a first measurement of Structural Indicators across six Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) in four EU member states (France, Spain, Poland, Slovakia). Belo...
science.feedback.org
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sixtus.net
Eine Partei, die Frauen, die über ihren Körper selbst bestimmen, zu Straftäterinnen macht, die sich dagegen wehrt, ein Verbotsprüfungsverfahren gegen eine faschistische Partei einzuleiten, setzt sich mit einer frauenhassenden, religiös-faschistischen Terrorregierung an einen Tisch. Passt.
Migrationspolitik: Dobrindt verteidigt Gespräche mit Taliban über Abschiebungen
Bundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt will "regelmäßig" weitere Straftäter nach Afghanistan abschieben. Zugleich verteidigt er im Bundestag Gespräche mit den Taliban.
www.zeit.de
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adfichter.bsky.social
Wir werden alle Datenfutter für die KI von LinkedIn (zu Microsoft zugehörig), wenn wir uns nicht wehren. LinkedIn nutzt das Opt-Out-Land Schweiz aus (ob EU weiss ich nicht). Und setzt den Toogle bei uns allen auf ON.

Ja, es ist verdammt frech.

Hier ⬇️aussteigen:
www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
Daten zur Verbesserung generativer KI Darf LinkedIn Ihre auf LinkedIn erstellten personenbezogenen Daten und Inhalte verwenden, um generative KI-Modelle von LinkedIn zu schulen, die zum Erstellen von Inhalten verwendet werden? Ihre Daten zum Schulen von KI-Modellen verwenden, um Inhalte zu erstellen ein/aus
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Reposted by: Stefan M. Herzog, Robert Böhm, Brendan Nyhan , and 15 more

jamiecummins.bsky.social
Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

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The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...
arxiv.org
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patrickbreitenbach.de
"Free Speech" wird als taktisches Werkzeug genutzt, um gesellschaftlich eher geächtete Positionen (Rassismus, Sexismus, Klassismus) wieder in die breite Akzeptanz zurück zu holen. Es geht dabei nicht um "Free Speech", denn wir sehen ja, dass Gegenrede von den gleichen Leuten hart sanktioniert wird.
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by Stefan M. Herzog

stefanherzog.bsky.social
PDF available at pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
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by Stefan M. Herzog — Reposted by: Andreas Ortmann

stefanherzog.bsky.social
🧠🤖 Ever wondered about the risks of the increasing customization capabilities of AI/AI-powered chatbots & what we can do about it? Check out our recent-ish paper:

The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities. doi.org/10.1177/2379...
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Reposted by: Stefan M. Herzog, Taha Yasseri

vitotrianni.bsky.social
🌍 Join us for #HACID Webinar #4: Gender & Diversity in Hybrid Collective Intelligence 🧠🤖
🗓 Sept 29, 2025 | ⏰ 18:00 CEST

Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/71775f...
Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-people-using-their-smartphones-8088445/
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Reposted by: Stefan M. Herzog, Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell , and 37 more

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
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anasofiamorais.bsky.social
We’ve all heard it: people make 200 mindless food decisions a day. But is it true? In our latest episode, Almudena Claassen reveals why this number is misleading and offers strategies that help families and individuals make healthier choices. tinyurl.com/3k2tjw6x
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Reposted by: Stefan M. Herzog, Stephan Lewandowsky

eloplop.bsky.social
New research out!🚨

In our new paper, we discuss how generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT can mediate confirmation bias in health information seeking.
As people turn to these tools for health-related queries, new risks emerge.
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nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
NYAS Publications
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications, such as ChatGPT, are transforming how individuals access health information, offering conversational and highly personalized interactions. Whi...
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Reposted by: Stefan M. Herzog, Leonhard Dobusch

netzpolitik.bsky.social
Wir müssen digitale Grundrechte anders erzählen – und endlich lauter werden.

Warum ich das Zentrum für Digitalrechte und Demokratie gegründet habe:

digitalpolitik.ghost.io/wir-mussen-d...

@digitalrechte.bsky.social
Wir müssen digitale Grundrechte anders erzählen – und endlich lauter werden
Vor einiger Zeit habe ich netzpolitik.org verlassen – nach fast 20 Jahren, in denen wir gemeinsam viel bewegt haben. Danach habe ich mir bewusst Zeit genommen: Was braucht es jetzt? Wo kann ich meine ...
digitalpolitik.ghost.io
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Reposted by: Stefan M. Herzog, Rense Corten

tobiasgalla.bsky.social
Review "Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond"
arxiv.org/abs/2507.11521

Lab experiments, data, models, analytical/computational tools. 93 pages, >1k references.

With Fabian Baumann, David Garcia, Gerardo Iñiguez, Márton Karsai, Jan Lorenz, Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron. Led by Michele Starnini
Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond
Opinion dynamics, the study of how individual beliefs and collective public opinion evolve, is a fertile domain for applying statistical physics to complex social phenomena. Like physical systems, soc...
arxiv.org
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iyadrahwan.bsky.social
Great coverage by @sciam.bsky.social of our research on how ChatGPT is influencing the words we use in conversation!

Work led by Hiromu Yakura & @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat...
ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation
Words frequently used by ChatGPT, including “delve” and “meticulous,” are getting more common in spoken language, according to an analysis of more than 700,000 hours of videos and podcasts
www.scientificamerican.com
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kathrinkuehn.bsky.social
Meinungsbildung über Social Media. Eigentlich wissen es alle - was hier läuft, ist nicht repräsentativ, im Gegenteil. Das Bild ist verzerrt, das Extreme bekommt mehr Raum. In den Dlf Systemfragen hat @lucarehseknauf.bsky.social die Lage gebündelt: www.deutschlandfunk.de/social-media... 1/
Social Media: Wer bricht das Schweigen der stillen Beobachter?
Bis zu 90 Prozent der User auf Social Media sind stille Beobachter. Extreme Meinungen werden so sichtbarer, Diskussionen polarisierter. Wie wäre das zu ändern?
www.deutschlandfunk.de
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Reposted by: Stefan M. Herzog, Fabio Giglietto, Katrin Weller

claesdevreese.bsky.social
The discussions about big platforms are intense. The systemic risks are real.

Now the #DSA Delegated Act is finally here to ensure data access for researchers. Time to put this system to work.

W @lkseiling.bsky.social, we show how @techpolicypress.bsky.social

www.techpolicy.press/time-to-deli...
Time To Deliver: Stakeholder Roles In The EU’s Delegated Act On Data Access | TechPolicy.Press
The Delegated Act on data access under the DSA provides much-needed clarity about both the access process and expectations towards the actors involved in it.
www.techpolicy.press
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Reposted by: Stefan M. Herzog, Brigitte Nerlich, William J. Brady , and 1 more

lewan.bsky.social
Fully transparent and open AI coming out of Switzerland soon. Something worth monitoring. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
A language model built for the public good
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM ma...
ethz.ch
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Reposted by: Stefan M. Herzog, Hugo Mercier, Magnus Johansson , and 2 more

jamiecummins.bsky.social
New preprint commentary from me, @malte.the100.ci, and @ianhussey.mmmdata.io.

Cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant.

THREAD BELOW 🧵

osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io
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Reposted by: Stefan M. Herzog, Stephan Lewandowsky, Victor Galaz

cabels18.bsky.social
Generative AI (GenAI) can do more than just answer questions - it can tailor its responses based on users’ preferences, habits, and even emotional tone.

We call this capability hypercustomization - explored in our new paper in Behavioral Science & Policy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities - Christoph M. Abels, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, Jason W. Burton, Dawn L. Holford, Levin Brink...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is changing human–machine interactions and the broader information ecosystem. Much as social media algorithms persona...
journals.sagepub.com
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arc-mpib.bsky.social
We wrapped up the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality at the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (@mpib-berlin.bsky.social).

ECRs from around the world joined us to share their insights on rationality, cognition, and decision-making.

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jamiecummins.bsky.social
Social scientists should not use chat interfaces when using LLMs in their research: they are impressively inefficient, and obscure/impose important methodological decisions that require thought.

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levinbrinkmann.bsky.social
You sound like ChatGPT -- that is what The Verge said about our recent preprint on how ChatGPT is reshaping human spoken communication.

Chatbots are becoming a cultural medium and agent of cultural homogenisation. Is this inevitable, or can model diversity help? www.theverge.com/openai/68674...
You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.
www.theverge.com
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by Michael E. Mann — Reposted by: Stefan M. Herzog, Cristina F. Fominaya, Nina Jankowicz , and 16 more

lewan.bsky.social
I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...
sks.to
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volksverpetzer.de
(1/9) Hier gibt es die Fakten:

1. Das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz ist dem Bundesinnenministerium unterstellt. Von Storchs Aussage ist hier aber irreführend, da die Aufgaben des Verfassungsschutzes gesetzlich geregelt sind und der*die Innenminister*in Weisungen nicht willkürlich erteilen kann.
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christianstoecker.de
Disinformation is the greatest threat of all. It is the root cause of our inability to tackle climate change (the first Big Lie was climate change denial), the deterioration of democracies, the rise of corrupt populists like Trump.That‘s why the fight science and real journalism.
Pew graph about Republican vs Democratic voters news sources. It is mostly FoX News for Republicans.
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christianstoecker.de
In diesem Zusammenhang zitiere ich immer gern den ehemaligen NSA-Chef der USA, Michael Hayden: „We kill people based on metadata.“ abcnews.go.com/blogs/headli...
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netzpolitik.bsky.social
Whatsapp führt Werbung ein. Dafür relevant sind die Datenspuren, wer mit wem wann und wo kommuniziert. Das reicht schon aus, um sehr viel über eine Person zu wissen, auch wenn die Unterhaltung selbst verschlüsselt ist.

It´s the Metadata!

Viel Spaß damit. Und wechselt einfach zu Signal.
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volksverpetzer.de
Wenn Linksextremismus so ein großes Problem ist, sollte man sie in die Talkshows einladen, mit ihnen diskutieren und ihre Forderungen selbst umsetzen, um sie politisch zu stellen. Oh? Zu fahrlässig? Warum ist das dann unsere Strategie bei der AfD?
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arnesemsrott.bsky.social
Sachen gibt's: Wenn man die Skalierung der Achse ändert, ist auf einmal der Balken beim Linksextremismus länger.
Rechtsextremistisches Personenpotenzial. Grafik von Dobrindt: Liegt bei etwa 50.000 Achse kleiner, dadurch bei Linksextremismus deutlich längere Balken
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