Zekun Sun is on fire, "heroic" and "creative" are exactly right!! Great new work out of the @actlab.bsky.social 🤩

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5.5% of sampled Claude US user conversations about politics were about fact-checking. I'm writing a report about demand for fact-checking in a shifting info ecosystem so this snapshot is great ... but it would be much better if journos/researchers had more access to AI data as with Google Trends

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I love my academic friends, but I don't understand the ethics/logic of saying you won't participate in peer review when you're on sabbatical even though you are sending out your own work for review during the same period.

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It's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech.

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In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

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