Jonas Ricker

@jonasricker.com

PhD student @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, working on generative AI security and deepfake detection 📍 Bochum, Germany

Pleased to share that our flagship @eurosky.social project is collaborating with Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) to explore algorithms to improve online conversations and increase understanding. eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...

Eurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - Eurosky

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

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Die #AfD will ihre politische Kommunikation offenbar mit #KI hochfahren: Eine Firma der AfD hat dafür ein Tool gebaut, das auf Knopfdruck Posts, Parolen und Grafiken im Parteidesign erstellt – bis hin zu fertigen Hetz-Posts. CORRECTIV hatte Zugang und hat die KI getestet.

Die Propaganda-KI der AfD

Eine Firma des AfD-Bundesvorstands hat eine KI gebaut, die auf Knopfdruck Propaganda erzeugt. CORRECTIV testete die AfD-KI-Propaganda undercover.

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What happens when researchers coordinate instead of compete? Our recent Nature World View article reflects on the experience of the Netherlands Metascience Coalition and what it might mean for the way we organize research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future

Scientists with disparate expertise writing grants together can identify knowledge gaps and drive progress — but systems must change to incentivize them.

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Our #CHI2026 paper "That's another doom I haven't thought about: A User Study on AI Labels as a Safeguard Against Image-Based Misinformation" (awarded with an honorable mention award) is now available in the conference proceedings! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

"That's another doom I haven't thought about": A User Study on AI Labels as a Safeguard Against Image-Based Misinformation | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing System...

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