Docket+ 7 September
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Below the paywall this morning -
* An old dog with no new tricks: Matryoshka targets regional elections in Germany
* Persona-prompted LLM agents achieve modest but genuine prediction of human social media reactions
* Russian data centers face new security requirements amid Ukraine's drone threats
* An old dog with no new tricks: Matryoshka targets regional elections in Germany
* Persona-prompted LLM agents achieve modest but genuine prediction of human social media reactions
* Russian data centers face new security requirements amid Ukraine's drone threats
Highlights
- Chatbots and the Ballot Box: Evaluating Accuracy, Sourcing, and Language Gaps in AI Answers to Election Questions (ISD, 3 September)
- Framing and news sharing behavior: the use of confirmation and refutation statements in the election of a right-wing populist leader (Nature, 7 September)
- BharatGather: A Culturally-Informed Benchmark Dataset for Misinformation and Fake News Detection in Indian Public Events (arXiv, September)
LISTEN - Rep. Zoe Lofgren on FISA, Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment (Tech Policy Press, 6 September)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- OpenAI chief scientist warns no-one is prepared for consequences of AI (BBC, 7 September)
- What ChatGPT’s DSA Designation Means for OpenAI and the EU (Tech Policy Press, 4 September)
- OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk (WIRED, 3 September)
Images & Visualisations
- AI-boosted orbital surveillance can close Southeast Asia’s maritime surveillance gap (ASPI, 4 September)