Fernando Diaz

Fernando Diaz

@841io.bsky.social

Associate Professor, CMU. Researcher, Google. Evaluation and design of information retrieval and recommendation systems, including their societal impacts.

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may be time to resurface this <squints> ten year old FATML paper that explored the ethics of automatic experimentation, say by agents. 841.io/doc/ethics-o...

Alexandra Lahav@alahav.bsky.social

New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...

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Sometimes it feels like some folks are losing the plot about what the goal of publishing research actually is. The goal is certainly not meant to be the productions of papers, but rather the production and communication of science.

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We've released test queries for NTCIR Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Shared Task (languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English). ntcir-tot.github.io/guidelines Register: research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-... (DEADLINE: JUNE 1ST) Submissions due: July (TBA) #NTCIR2026 #NTCIRToT #NTCIR2026ToT

ntcir-tot.github.ioNTCIR 2026 Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Shared TaskTip of the tongue: The phenomenon of failing to retrieve something from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.

Announcing the release of the NTCIR Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Shared Task participation guidelines: ntcir-tot.github.io/guidelines. Please reshare and spread the word. #NTCIR2026 #NTCIRToT #NTCIR2026ToT /1

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Excellent opportunity for researchers in computational humanities and AI: a 3-year Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher position in Helsinki focusing on trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversity. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Please spread the word!

jobs.helsinki.fiResearch Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher in trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversitiesResearch Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher in trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversities

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thank you to a student for sharing this bookmark from the campus library, which attributes a point made by Herbert Simon in the 1970s to Mr. Beast

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"Diagram of the art-making process showing the four main phases, feedback loops, and moderating variables." Mary-Anne Mace & Tony Ward (2002) Modeling the Creative Process: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Creativity in the Domain of Art Making, Creativity Research Journal, 14:2, 179-192.

“Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.” RIP Fred Wiseman

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🎭 How do LLMs (mis)represent culture? 🧮 How often? 🧠 Misrepresentations = missing knowledge? spoiler: NO! At #CHI2026 we are bringing ✨TALES✨ a participatory evaluation of cultural (mis)reps & knowledge in multilingual LLM-stories for India 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21322 1/10

what’s surprising here is less that these papers were written or accepted with fabricated citations, but that it’s a symptom that actually reading, understanding, and analyzing literature has deteriorated for both authors and reviews.

Sharon Goldman@sharongoldman.bsky.social

NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...

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The influence of domain knowledge is huge when it comes to applied AI. Domain expertise can prevent overengineering and/or unnecessary costs. Working in the legal industry as an AI scientist it became obvious early on how crucial it is to build the bridge towards domain experts. Every day.

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📣 It's again that time of the year 🤩 - our internship call for the FATE team @ MSR Montreal and our collaborators is now up! 🎉🎉 We are broadly looking for candidates interested in perceptions, evaluation, uses, and impacts of AI! #FAccT #FAccT2025 #CHI2025 #NeurIPS2025 #ACL2025

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if you work on "AI" and are concerned with social issues, you should apply to be the new director of the Tufts AI Institute: apply.interfolio.com/178311 (Need to be tenureable in one of our engineering departments, but it's explicitly open to people who work on human-oriented stuff.)