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Aniello De Santo

@anids.bsky.social

The mystery of the Universe is its comprehensibility. Computational psycholinguist, I guess, but not a professional account. Opinions etc etc my own. he\him (pfp cc. Dustin Nguyen)

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Aniello De Santo@anids.bsky.social · 2w ago

Not that it matters anymore since the NSF is dead, but it's *really* demotivating to have a proposal consistently ranked Excellent and still go unfunded. I know it is a lottery and there is no money etc etc but SIGH.

Aniello De Santo@anids.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sending this to the office at my university pushing for Qualtrics'new "data generation" feature as "revolutionizing" <screams internally and out loud>

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 8mo ago

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

title: Cheap science, real harm: the cost of replacing human participation with synthetic data author: Abeba Birhane abstract: Driven by the goals of augmenting diversity, increasing speed, reducing cost, the use of synthetic data as a replacement for human participants is gaining traction in AI research and product development. This talk critically examines the claim that synthetic data can “augment diversity,” arguing that this notion is empirically unsubstantiated, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful. While speed and cost-efficiency may be achievable, they often come at the expense of rigour, insight, and robust science. Drawing on research from dataset audits, model evaluations, Black feminist scholarship, and complexity science, I argue that replacing human participants with synthetic data risks producing both real-world and epistemic harms at worst and superficial knowledge and cheap science at best
Aniello De Santo@anids.bsky.social · last mo.

I won't be at SCiL this year but UofU Comp Ling is well represented with work from students and colleagues! A short thread! Go say hi to them, they are fun and for most of them this is their first SCiL experience!