It’s only human to need help — but we have to be able to admit it.
A Theory of Messaging Styles & Ghosting.
Online communication tools serve many purposes. So does silence.
Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
Human Problems: It’s Not Always The Technology’s Fault
We have met the enemy and he is us. When a teenage boy in Orlando started texting Character.AI’s chatbot, it started as an innocent use of a new tool. Sewell Setzer III customized the chatbot to ha…
‘It’s the most empathetic voice in my life’: How AI is transforming the lives of neurodivergent people
AI tools like ChatGPT are helping neurodivergent users communicate more clearly and confidently — though some experts warn that overreliance could come at a cost.
Michael R. Crusoe (@biocrusoe@fairpoints.social)
Oh, I like this part > No AI-generated text in human-to-human communication > When our maintainers volunteer their time to review your issue, PR, or proposal, they do not want to talk to a machine. This is a basic principle of respect. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine/116839550229253906
Open Letter: Communications Infrastructure Is Not Terrorism
Let's normalize debunking each other
The spread of misinformation has become an epidemic, but information hygiene can help.
We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics
We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics
AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?
ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans
Ask don't tell: Reducing sycophancy in large language models
Sycophancy, the tendency of large language models to favour user-affirming responses over critical engagement, has been identified as an alignment failure, particularly in high-stakes advisory and...
Adversarial Communication
“AI” turns every conversation into a fight, because fighting is what they are good at.
Capturing our Attention by @neillevy.bsky.social "we possess sophisticated capacities of epistemic vigilance, which work reasonably well to distinguish reliable from unreliable information, but ... we do not have parallel defences against attentional capture" > tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.202…
If you care about fighting misinformation, strengthening information integrity and safeguarding democracy, you should read this account I've written about the journalist-creator lab my colleagues and I have just delivered in Kenya. Spoiler: it was an absolute success.
What happens when content creators and journalists come together?
www.trust.org
