Front-Page News: The Effect of News Positioning on Financial Markets. First published: 01 November 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.13287 Anastassia Fedyk is at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. “This paper estimates the effect of news positioning on the speed of price discovery, using exogenous variation in prominent (“front-page”) positioning of news articles on the Bloomberg… Continue Reading
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The Foundation Model Transparency Index
AI Snake Oil Blog: “Foundation models such as GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion 2 are the engines of generative AI. While the societal impact of foundation models is growing, transparency is on the decline, mirroring the opacity that has plagued past digital technologies like social media. How are these models trained and deployed? Once released, how… Continue Reading
ABA Profile of the Legal Profession
ABA – “The free, annual Profile of the Legal Profession report is a snapshot of a moment in time – a compilation of statistics and trends in 10 areas, including demographics, law schools, judges and legal technology. Bookmark this page and download the 2023 report when it’s released in the coming weeks.” Continue Reading
Virtual Cloud Portals
Dark Clouds: Can Government Agencies Evade Public-Records Laws by Storing Documents in Privately Owned Digital Portals? Frank D. LoMonte, Adjunct Instructor, University of Georgia School of Law. Newsroom Legal Counsel, Cable News Network, Inc. J.D., University of Georgia School of Law, 2000. B.A., Georgia State University, 1992. “Laws enabling the public to inspect government records… Continue Reading
ChatGPT is no longer as clueless about recent events
ZDNet: “ChatGPT users frustrated with the chatbot’s ignorance about recent events will now find it more informative and accommodating. At its first Dev Day conference for developers on Monday, ChatGPT creator OpenAI revealed that the knowledge cutoff dates for both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.0 have been extended. For GPT-3.5, the cutoff date has been increased to… Continue Reading
The murky math of the New York Times bestsellers list
The Hustle: “Sy Montgomery spends money on three things: gas, groceries, and making the New York Times bestsellers list. For years, she and her husband have lived as freelance writers deep in the mountains of New Hampshire. They’ve eked out a living, she says, because they’re so frugal that even at 65 years old she… Continue Reading
Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline
“A new Pew Research Center survey finds the share of Americans who say science has had a mostly positive effect on society has fallen and there’s been a continued decline in public trust in scientists. In this report, we cover: Trust in scientists and other groups (Chapter 1) Views of the impact of science on… Continue Reading
Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
“The free new Outlook replaces Mail in Windows, and later also the classic Outlook. It sends secret credentials to Microsoft servers. (This is a translation of this german article.) The new Outlook is not what it seems at first glance: a replacement for Microsoft Office Outlook – at least not yet. What it definitely is,… Continue Reading
How to share large files over the web
The Verge: “There’s no shortage of ways to share files with other people, whether you want to send them in a group chat, attach them to an email, or ping them over via AirDrop or Nearby Share. These all work perfectly well, but they’re all best for smaller files. If you’ve got a larger file… Continue Reading
Worried about AI hijacking your voice for a deepfake? This tool could help
NPR: “Artificial intelligence has gotten so good at mimicking people’s physical looks and voices that it can be hard to tell if they’re real or fake. Roughly half of the respondents in two newly-released AI surveys — from Northeastern University and Voicebot.ai and Pindrop — said they couldn’t distinguish between synthetic and human-generated content. This… Continue Reading
Deepfakes and scientific knowledge dissemination
Doss, C., Mondschein, J., Shu, D. et al. Deepfakes and scientific knowledge dissemination. Sci Rep 13, 13429 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39944-3 “Science misinformation on topics ranging from climate change to vaccines have significant public policy repercussions. Artificial intelligence-based methods of altering videos and photos (deepfakes) lower the barriers to the mass creation and dissemination of realistic, manipulated… Continue Reading
Israel-Gaza crisis: X fails to remove 98% of posts reported by the CCDH for hate and extremism
Center for Countering Digital Hate: “Elon Musk’s X (previously Twitter) continues to host the overwhelming majority of a sample of posts that breach platform rules for promoting antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian hate and other hateful rhetoric in the wake of the Israel-Gaza crisis, the Center for Countering Digital Hate has found. The CCDH’s study, published Tuesday… Continue Reading
