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cfiesler

@cfiesler@hci.social

information science prof at university of colorado boulder, social computing / tech ethics researcher, exceptionally minuscule tiktok star, fangirl / geek, she/her

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I would really love if every time I post something about AI bias on the internet I didn't have to (a) defend my credentials ("do you even code bro?"); (b) justify that yes, I know how AI works, and yes, I know what training data is; (c) clarify that more than one thing can be a problem at the same time (e.g., tech AND society); and/or (d) deal with people who insist racism has to be intentional.

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oooooh and I just got called a luddite for THIRD time this week!

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Here's today's academic hot take. The way we run conferences is absolutely wild. Can you imagine if a company had 100% employee turnover every year and all they had to rely on was (if you're lucky) some documentation, or having to reach out to the person who previously had your job which you then feel bad about because they don't work there anymore?

Also the fact that anyone thinks professors should be event planners.

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This hot take is brought to you by someone who co-chaired two different conferences last year. And now that I think I actually kind of know how to do it, I probably never will again. (Or it will be in like 10 years when somehow I get talked in to CHI. Probably not though.)

I will say that the larger conference (~800 people) had a couple of paid helpers who knew what they were doing re: components of the event planning stuff. The smaller (< 100) literally had me picking out the food.

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@overholt Yeah for the larger conference our helpers were absolutely indispensable. Though there are still a lot of things out of their scope, it was so great to not have to focus on the minutiae of event planning.

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@failedLyndonLaRouchite I don't know precisely, though nothing in this post suggested I had a solution. 🤷‍♀️ I imagine most solutions would cost money, which is a whole other problem.

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I'll note that one partial solution to part of this problem is staggered positions, which some conferences do for all or some organizing positions. But it is a HUGE ask for someone to do these things for more than one year in a row. (So I understand when people declined when I tried to make this happen.) Like yes, professional service is sometimes officially part of academics' jobs, but it's not like other things stop. i.e., you don't get a teaching release for chairing a conference.

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Research dissemination
Tired: Twitter thread
Wired: blog post
Inspired: short form video for TikTok and Instagram

This post is a joke but also here ya go. :) https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6E1uQ_ucey/

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We're reading Blood in the Machine for my book club (hosted by @zephoria <3) and I love this because I've been called a luddite TWICE on tiktok in the past week hahaha.

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This story is an example of about five different things that I hate so much about the intersection between chatbots and the internet. https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-has-a-disabled-child/

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Anyone have theories about what "open source AI" they might be using for this? The whole thing is pretty silly and could also just be wizard-of-oz, but this is also not a particularly sophisticated chatbot. https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-circle-season-6-ai-bot-max-interview

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I just saw that the AI conference NeurIPS has a call for machine learning papers from high school students.

It’s bad enough that folks applying to PhD programs are being told they have to have already published in order to be admitted into a good program. Are we now creating even more pathways just for students who are exceptionally privileged? Imagine having the opportunity to write and publish a paper in a major AI conference in high school…

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The first rule of etiquette on Reddit is "remember the human" - this should apply to researchers, too! This blog post is a summary of our (myself, @michaelzimmer @profprof @sarahgilbert and Naiyan Jones) recently published paper (in PACM-HCI as part of the ACM GROUP conference) about research ethics for Reddit and public internet content more generally. https://cfiesler.medium.com/how-to-remember-the-human-recommendations-for-ethical-reddit-research-8fe34e30e21d

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@pmonks @inthehands @michaelzimmer @profprof @sarahgilbert That is Reddit’s own etiquette for the platform. I confess I don’t understand this comment.

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@pmonks @inthehands @michaelzimmer @profprof @sarahgilbert An interesting point that is completely irrelevant to our paper and its title since neither of those things suggest otherwise.

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@pmonks @inthehands @michaelzimmer @profprof @sarahgilbert It's a good thing that we aren't doing that then!

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@pmonks @inthehands @michaelzimmer @profprof @sarahgilbert It seems as if you are making a significant (and it seems incorrect) assumption about the contents of the paper based on the title of a blog post. If you read it, feel free to offer critique based on what we actually wrote.

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@pmonks @inthehands @michaelzimmer @profprof @sarahgilbert I think that we have different definitions of what it means to “appeal to” and/or “source of authority.” In any case I think we can leave this here - glad you enjoyed the paper!

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In honor of discovering that I've apparently had a Wikipedia page for a few months, I decided to tell the story of why I'm not a Wikipedian (a story I told Jimmy Wales lol) and this seems like the kind of thing that might interest you all: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5i1r68Lyk-/

Though TL;DR if you don't want to watch a four minute video, my attempt to increase coverage of children's literature on Wikipedia was met with exactly the kinds of gatekeeping acrimonious jerk behavior you might expect.

cfiesler,
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@kylethayer @bkeegan oh could be! Also I’d forgotten about that fake deepfake thing, that was wild. :)

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Update: The way the Articles for Deletion discussion is going, I suspect my page will stay. But it is a fascinating experience watching people argue about whether I have "a large scholarly influence over [my] subject area" and minutiae about the authority of news sources that have written me and whether NSF CAREER awards are prestigious. "Notability" is such a fascinating social construct. :)

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@karger I literally just learned about this two days ago! https://en.everybodywiki.com/Everybodywiki:Welcome

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Yesterday I got two emails from Wikipedia editors offering (paid) services to improve my Wikipedia page so that it isn't deleted. One I just politely declined, but the other I'm still mad about. This email is misleading (less generously, outright lying) and manipulative. It's someone claiming to be a "senior wikipedia consultant" and they have a business webpage for people to pay them to create Wikipedia pages.

I replied asking them for clarification on this email, and they did not respond.

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Final update:

Can someone find me a tshirt or something that says "I survived Articles for Deletion"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Casey_Fiesler

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@afewbugs I do not, sorry! But that is the TL;DR.

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@afewbugs Oh I should add that the video has captions though, so it can also be read.

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