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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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Hey what are y’all’s favorite books on AI ethics? I get asked for recs a lot and I rec the usual suspects but I think a lot of people are hoping for things that are especially relevant to gen AI (as opposed to ML) and I wonder if I’m missing more recent stuff.

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@lambdatotoro @danmcquillan nope thanks!

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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.

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Also one of my favorite things about the Wikipedia page for me is that it mentions I have type 1 diabetes. (Which is totally fine to include, it's in a news article about my research!) Representation for the win. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Fiesler

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@ahundt yep that tracks….

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Also does anyone who does Wikipedia work know if there have been improvements re: hounding/edit stalking since the new code of conduct that was released a few years ago? Someone mentioned to me years ago that they were attempting to address this exact kind of behavior though I have no idea if it's been successful.

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Update: my Wikipedia page has been nominated for deletion for lack of notability 😂

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@andresmh I’m sure the AFD page will be super fun to follow.

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Student midterm assignments on AI incident reporting are blowing my mind and making my day.

I asked them to pick a case in the news (borrowing from @cfiesler's list of articles) and then do an in-depth analysis of what went wrong, and what should be recorded in the future if we want to diagnose and fix AI failures.

Hoping I can convince students to publish some of these.

cfiesler,
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@natematias Love this! I was thinking of doing something similar in the fall so let me know how it goes. I'd also be interested in which topics were the most popular. :)

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On a post that has absolutely NOTHING to do with this, two people have been arguing in my comments for three days about whether spreadsheets are databases. The thread is now almost 50 comments.

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@kyleejohnson you have no idea what I would give for the ability to mute threads on tiktok

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It’s like someone manufactured this headline in a lab specifically to make ME angry. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/fake-ai-law-firms-are-sending-fake-dmca-threats-to-generate-fake-seo-gains/

cyberlyra, to random
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My new op Ed in @techpolicypress

AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced companies and workforces for decades, writes Princeton University sociologist Janet Vertesi:

https://www.techpolicy.press/dont-be-fooled-much-ai-is-just-outsourcing-redux/

cfiesler,
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@cyberlyra oh dang I wish I'd seen this before I made a video about this issue this morning!

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Question: Are the dozens and dozens of people who comment on my videos claiming that language models "aren't even AI" saying this because they think that the term AI means actual intelligence or like, sentience?

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@spaduf "pedantry for pedantry's sake" is rampant in my comments haha

cfiesler,
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Also for folks who are interested in the definitional squishiness of "AI" this paper is really interesting! https://people.csail.mit.edu/pkrafft/papers/critplat-policy-vs-practice.pdf

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I won’t be at this year due to another travel commitment but I do have two papers I’m really excited to talk about! One on AI education on YouTube and another on provider perceptions of recommendation fairness. Led by other awesome folks. More on these once papers are finalized!

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@pg not yet!

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@pg haha no. I miiiiiight do a youtube video about it but ugh it's so much work.

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@pg A funny thing is that the folks who pulled me into the project as a collaborator didn't even know I'm a YouTuber. :)

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@pg iMovie. though it's not just editing time, it's also filming!

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In anticipation of the imminent end of my sabbatical (and not much travel this month), April is going to be a content creation push for me. Any suggestions for topics? This will mostly be short form video (Instagram/TikTok) though I might be persuaded to a blog post or two. But I think my question for you is: What do you think people need to know? About AI or other tech ethics, IP law, internet stuff, HCI, women in computing, academia... etc.? I know some of you might have good ideas. :)

cfiesler,
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@DoctorDNS you mean sabbatical insights? Mostly that being on sabbatical from half-ish of my job but still being 100% busy must have meant I’m typically 150% busy.

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@davidthewid I don’t even know how to explain that since no one seems to agree on what open source means in this context right??

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@lathamgreen According to how the U.S. copyright office has been handling this so far my guess is no.

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@davidthewid Weirdly enough I have an email half written to you anyway about something completely unrelated so we totally can if you're interested. :)

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