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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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In the continuing "other people think my email is their email" saga, after receiving the dozenth or so email from a vet in Pennsylvania about someone else's dog, I clicked on "unsubscribe" and it automatically just LOGGED ME INTO THIS PERSON'S ACCOUNT, showing me all of their account information, including e.g. address and phone number. All I could think of to do to "unsubscribe" was change their email address to idontknowmyownemail.

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I’m not at (instead on the tail end of a long-planned vacation) but wanted to share two papers being presented! One paper is about fairness for recsys providers (e.g. YouTube creators or people on dating apps) and one is about intro AI courses on YouTube. 🧵

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This paper led by Jessie Smith (with myself, Aishwarya Satwani, and Robin Burke) reports on focus groups with content creators and dating app users to see what would happen if we try to design fairness metrics WITH people who actually experience unfairness on platforms. (Also won a best paper award!) https://bit.ly/facct2024

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And this paper led by Severin Engelmann with Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Angelina Wang and myself reports on an analysis of intro to AI courses on YouTube and our recommendations for integrating ethics (since they currently do not). https://rb.gy/2ktdik

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@pg LOL! I watched 90+ hours of intro AI YouTube videos and all I got was this lousy FAccT paper

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    @mark Already called them :)

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    I really hate how journal spam now sends emails high priority and also they send follow-ups when you ignore them. 😭 AND it’s like the one thing that Outlook doesn’t decide to quarantine…

    Also the field is almost always waaaaaay off. I guess this is just a (huge) numbers game??

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    @DrFerrous i think it means your email got scraped off a website somewhere ;)

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    Authors, I continue to be unconcerned about ChatGPT taking your jobs.

    I'm currently finishing up revising a novel, and out of curiosity I decided to see what kinds of suggestions and advice ChatGPT would give me for revising some scenes. In the little bit I tried, it offered a decent idea or two, but when it came to actual revision suggestions the writing is utter garbage.

    Here's one example, and keep in mind that this is a middle grade novel. So for, like, twelve-years olds:

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    My version:
    On my plate was some stir-fry chicken, one taco, a piece of cheese pizza, and some seaweed salad that I’d found next to the sushi. I loved seaweed, which most kids think is really weird, but had they ever tasted it?! It tastes like the ocean. And who doesn't love the ocean?

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    ChatGPT's revision:
    As I sat down with a plate laden with an eclectic mix—from stir-fry chicken and a taco to a slice of cheese pizza and seaweed salad—I pondered the vastness of the culinary spread. Seaweed, salty and crisp, reminded me of the ocean, a taste I adored contrary to most kids' preferences.

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    @jamiemccarthy I cannot adequately express how very not interested in that I am. :)

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    ChatGPT is That Guy in your MFA program.

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    re: Scarlett Johansson I think it's interesting that Mira Murati told NPR that they didn't pattern the ChatGPT voice off of anyone and that she doesn't even know what Johansson's voice sounds like. Because that could totally be true.

    Anyone else think Sam Altman might have just asked for input into voice casting, and (after Johansson turned them down) chose the actress whose voice sounded most like hers? Which, you know... illegal? No. Creepy? Yes.

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    @jtlg What I meant is that it was 100% intentional but that they can argue that it wasn't imitation. Does just using someone who naturally sounds like someone else count as imitation? (And also that I think this could just totally be Altman's doing without needing many other people's involvement.)

    That said, this was indeed clearly the most generous theory, as creepy as it is. :)

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    Though something interesting about this is that IF this very generous interpretation (as creepy as it is) is true, then it's not even a voice cloning issue, and fits squarely into existing publicity rights laws. Which right now (given existing precedent) might be an easier legal case to make. So maybe I'm wrong and it is both illegal AND creepy.

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    @jtlg does it matter if the voice actress knew? The Midler case was straight up impersonation right, like the actress was told that was what she was doing? (Though I could be wrong about that.) Though maybe that doesn't actually matter!

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    Also an interesting case of law versus ethics where I suspect that even if they're legally in the clear, this was very obviously intentional (on someone's part even if, per my generous interpretation, it was just Altman) which is creepy AF and a very bad look for OpenAI. Since (because of this bad look, I assume) they've already disabled the voice, the only benefit to this being illegal instead of just unethical would be Johansson could get $$? But I think the world is on her side here. :)

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    @jtlg one reason I think it's a possibility that Altman was just making decisions without other people not knowing what was going on is that I would think their lawyers would be better than this :) (or at least that someone would have predicted... well, exactly what actually happened.)

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    I couldn't stop thinking about the Meta AI chatbot that made up a human experience in a parenting Facebook group - so I wrote about why online communities are for people, not chatbots. Decades of social computing research tells us that information seeking in online communities is as much about shared experiences and human connection as it is about getting an answer. Maybe generative AI shouldn't be everywhere doing everything. https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473

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    there sure have been a lot of armchair constitutional law scholars out here recently; how weird that my takes are in line with actual experts and not random people in social media comments :) https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1251086753/tiktok-ban-first-amendment-lawsuit-free-speech-project-texas

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    @rosanita hahaha I know right, I wasted so much money going to law school

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    I've also been wondering lately if I will be more tolerant of random internet strangers explaining the law to me once I'm done paying off my student loans and don't have a painful monthly reminder of my decision to go to law school. :)

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    Dear authors of computing research papers… https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-the-word-utilize-and-im-loving-every-moment-of-your-overblown-rhetoric

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    Benedictine College should refund the tuition of every woman graduate who had to listen to the commencement speaker say that her degree is worthless.

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    @vincent @sepdroid https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/05/14/harrison-butker-commencement-speech-women-biden-pride/

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