🚨 New preprint alert: We show that web-browsing GPT and LLaMA models can infer social media user demographics with reasonable accuracy—using only usernames. This opens new possibilities for social media research in the post-API era but raises important privacy concerns.

✨ New LLM paper ✨ > Open-source LLMs perform well in text annotation tasks > Fine-tuned open-source LLMs outperform zero-shot GPT-4 > Fine-tuning beats few-shot training with modest amount of annotated data w/ @malizadeh.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social et al. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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"We find that sustained negative coverage significantly predicts changes to platforms’ user policies, highlighting the role of public pressure in shaping the governance of online platforms." by @emmahoes.bsky.social @klueserthan.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social @malizadeh.bsky.social et al.

How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance: Evidence from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube

Social media companies wield considerable power over what people can say and do online, with consequences for freedom of expression and participation in digital culture. Yet we still know little ab...

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"we present FreshPrompt, a simple few-shot prompting method that substantially boosts the performance of an LLM on FreshQA by incorporating relevant and up-to-date information retrieved from a search engine into the prompt." via @malizadeh.bsky.social

FreshLLMs: Refreshing Large Language Models with Search Engine Augmentation

Most large language models (LLMs) are trained once and never updated; thus, they lack the ability to dynamically adapt to our ever-changing world. In this work, we perform a detailed study of the...

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Check out the program of the 2023 Digital Democracy Workshop, Oct 26-27, University of Zurich Keynote by Atoosa Kasirzadeh: "Can we reconcile the governmental use of online targeting with democracy?" Free attendance, registration required polisky commsky cssky

26./27.10: 2023 Digital Democracy Workshop

The Digital Democracy Workshop is co-organized by the Democracy Community of the Digital Society Initiative and the Digital Democracy Lab at the University of Zurich. It aims to facilitate exchange…

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