🎧 ADM+S researcher Daniel Angus (he/him) @[email protected] is interviewed in this episode of The Conversation Weekly, discussing how intellectual property may be at risk of 'data poisoning', with generative AI tools being built to scrape data and images from the internet without permission.

🎧 ADM+S Associate Director Prof Jean Burgess from QUT joins CCS_pod for their latest podcast episode on artificial intelligence (AI).

What is AI? What role do different disciplines play, and what new and innovative methods are being used to study it?
open.spotify.com/episode/6enYrb…

'Artificial Intelligence for Social Impact', a free online course developed by ADM+S research fellow Dang Nguyen for Asian Development Bank Institute is now available.

The course serves as a starting point to deepen your understanding of this rapidly evolving field.
admscentre.org.au/short-course-a…

Congratulations to ADM+S Chief Investigator Prof Mark Sanderson Mark Sanderson from RMIT University who has been appointed to the 2024 ACM SIGIR Academy, for his outstanding contributions field.

Read more: admscentre.org.au/prof-mark-sand…

👍/👎 What are the pros and cons of #GenAI for visual journalism? Enjoyed writing up some findings in this piece for Digital Content Next. Thanks for the opportunity, Michelle Manafy (she/her), and looking forward to meeting in Europe later this year. ADM+S Centre RMIT University RMIT Journalism RMIT Research

This episode of Media Watch exposes an NRL news platform using AI to rewrite articles from paywalled services and share with the public for free.

Commentary from ADM+S researcher Daniel Angus (he/him) @[email protected], from 13:32. abc.net.au/mediawatch/epi…

So much important, impactful, and interdisciplinary work happening through the ADM+S Centre. 🤩 Check it out in its just-released annual report: admscentre.org.au/2023-adms-annu…. Feel very privileged to be affiliated with this Centre and to work alongside such smart and kind folks.

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society is pleased to share that our 2023 Annual Report is now available to download.

The report details new partnerships, policy impacts, publications, research training & more. ARC
admscentre.org.au/2023-adms-annu…

Researcher Spotlight 💡

ADM+S Associate Investigator Dr Hao Xue from UNSW is building data-driven human mobility behaviour analysis and forecasting methods to improve the user experience of mobility services. ARC

Learn more about Hao’s work: admscentre.org/Hao

With meganrose🦋bsky☁️social, we made a short film as part of our ADM+S Centre UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture research, drawing on interviews with #ActuallyAutistic people about how they use non-human supports (both digital and non-digital) for connection, health and wellbeing youtube.com/watch?v=gtNuwl…

Google suspended the image generation features of its #generativeAI Gemini over accusations it contained an 'anti-white bias'.

Dr Thao Phan ADM+S Centre writes on how Gemini fuelled a larger culture war against diversity, equity & inclusion in tech.bit.ly/4b3uKbt

A little piece from me on how paranoid whiteness haunts reactionary attitudes towards generative AI images.

Shout out to Fabian Offert and Jathan Sadowski for helping to clarify these ideas

And big thanks to Australian Academy of the Humanities for the invitation!

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New #research by T.J. Thomson | @[email protected] Ryan Thomas PhD-Bee (Phoebe Matich) into generative #AI images highlights the importance for media organisations to have an image-specific AI policy in place to prevent incidents of mis- and disinformation from happening. rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/…

Generative AI can be used to write or condense text but what else can it do? Here are some additional use cases based on recent research I conducted with Ryan Thomas & PhD-Bee (Phoebe Matich).

theconversation.com/visualising-th…

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ADM+S Kylie Pappalardo joins the Federal Government’s Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Reference Group steering committee - established to better prepare for future copyright challenges emerging from AI bit.ly/3xI3oZU QUT Digital Media Research Centre Kylie Pappalardo #AIpolicy #copyright

Algorithmic decision-making poses urgent threats for the rights and entitlements of people with disability; but through ' #algoactivism ', they're fighting back.

New publication from Georgia van Toorn in partnership with Data Justice Lab on APO ⬇️
apo.org.au/node/326312

🎉Happy International Fact-Checking Day from all of us at AAP FactCheck!📝🔍

📹Here's Melbourne University's Professor Chris Leckie explaining to our chief fact-checker William Summers what to watch out for when identifying AI-generated images. 🙌

#factcheckday

'Despite digital transformations affecting many aspects of our society, some groups are still missing out on the benefits of digital access.'

ADM+S project Mapping the Digital Gap has been selected as a key research impact case study by RMIT University. ARC
rmit.edu.au/research/impac…

🎥 Generative Visual AI in the Newsroom

Drawing on interviews with leading news organisations across three continents including Australia, Dr T.J. Thomson (T.J. Thomson | @[email protected], RMIT University) examines the opportunities and challenges of Generative Visual AI in the Newsroom.
youtube.com/watch?v=p5UKRp…

The ADM+S Centre have partnered with the New South Wales Ombudsman to map and analyse the use of automated systems in state and local government.

Professor Prof Kim Weatherall and Dr José-Miguel Bello y Villarino provided evidence in the Inquiry.

Read more: bit.ly/3VoLo0u