Docket+ 21 April
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Highlights
- Capturing AI's Attention: Physics of Repetition, Hallucination, Bias and Beyond (ArXiv, 6 April)
- The role of mental representation in sharing misinformation online. (APA, 2024)
- The future of conspiracy theory scholarship (T&F, 14 April)
- Decoding Misinformation: Why we fall for fake news (IPSOS, 10 April)
- Personalized Dialogues with AI Effectively Address Parents’ Concerns about HPV Vaccination (OSF, 3 April)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Why am I seeing this? Towards recognizing social media recommender systems with missing recommendations (ArXiv, 15 April)
- Deep learning and sentence embeddings for detection of clickbait news from online content (Nature, 17 April)
- X’s Selective Censorship Fight in Turkey Won’t Help (Tech Policy Press, 15 April)
- How Information Asymmetry Inhibits Efforts for Big Tech Accountability (Tech Policy Press, 16 April)
AI & LLMs
- A Primer for Evaluating Large Language Models in Social-Science Research (SAGE, 16 April)
- LISTEN: Researchers Defend the Scientific Consensus on Bias and Discrimination in AI (Tech Policy Press, 16 April)
1.2 World News
- No Love Sepah Web: the hack of the Iranian bank, Bank Sepah, by a group named “Codebreakers” (Memetic Warfare, 16 April)
- The art of delirium: social media suppression in authoritarian regimes (Oxford Academic, 16 April)
- The Spread of (Mis)Information: A Social Media Experiment in Pakistan (SSRN, 15 April)