However,there are some notable elements in the application form. In order to determine whether researchers are 'independent from commercial interests' (as required by article 40.8.b) X asks information about a much broader category of affiliated entities to assess an application

How do and should model marketplaces hosting user-uploaded AI systems like @HuggingFace @GitHub & Civitai moderate models & answer takedown requests? In a new paper, Robert Gorwa | @[email protected] & I provide case studies of tricky AI platform drama & chart a way forward. osf.io/preprints/soca…

Is the🇪🇺Platform Work Directive really a 'threat to drivers in hundreds of cities', as Uber suggests?
❌NO - the supposed incompatibility of flexible work and workers rights is a myth - and a harmful one at that!
Faculty of Law The Institute for Ethics in AI Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
ft.com/content/1d2ca0…

Calling 📣Mastodon Admins 🐘

We (Ethical Web & Data at Oxford Martin School & Oxford Comp Sci) are running a study to understand what makes citizen-run social media work/challenging:

Please consider participating and contributing your expert perspectives :

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Utter devastation left by the wildfires in Maui, Hawaï. It is far from hyperbole to say that Lahaina has been wiped off the map.

Credit: Vince Carter

Launching this Saturday, after two years of hard work! the-santiago-boys.com

How does the EU define platform labour? Does this definition include and exclude varying models of digitized work? M. SIX SILBERMAN (six silberman) takes a closer look.

verfassungsblog.de/the-definition…

Eva Kocher @cillas.bsky.social

Please rt Inside Higher Ed. Does reading about others’ achievements on #AcademicTwitter make you feel bad sometimes? Human Centred Computing @ Oxford needs #WomenInResearch to take a 15 min survey on social comparison in #research and #academia on Twitter here bit.ly/acadtwitt #WomenInAcademia

You can also use #ChatGPT to generate Mermaid Sequence Flow Notation based protocols descriptions for visualization.

Prompt:
Explain OAuth 2.0 using Mermaid Sequence Flow Notation.

Diagram link: tinyurl.com/2v62x8vk

#Explainer #OAuth #Visualization #Mermaid #OAuth 20

Elements of the White House R&D strategy paint a different vision for AI - foregrounding sustainability, effects on workers, and the flaws with self-regulatory testing. But to work, it needs to grapple w the effects of industry dominance: techpolicy.press/the-white-hous… Tech Policy Press

'Regulating data collection and use in the workplace is now more a matter of regulating working conditions than data protection ... We argue that workplace data regulation should largely be a matter of workplace governance and worker co-determination' ... yess! 💯

as algorithmic management and LLMs change work, workers need legal tools that can help make sense of the data and systems employers use.

what this really means is giving workers real agency over tech at work, not just access to, like, spreadsheets of their data

new paper:

Dataset documentation fans, check out 'Data Statements: From Technical Concept to Community Practice' (Angelina (Angie) McMillan-Major Bender & Friedman 2023) -- reporting on how we took data statements v1 to v2 through learning with and from practitioners.

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

#NLProc

I love this renamming - especially because the marketing language models get as 'web search,' strikes me as one of the most dangerous mischaracterizations LLMs epistemic relationship to training data.