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"Just a strange pic": Evaluating 'safety' in GenAI Image safety annotation tasks from diverse annotators' perspectives
Ding Wang, Mark D\'iaz, Charvi Rastogi, Aida Davani, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Pushkar Mishra, Roma Patel, Alicia Parrish, Zoe Ashwood, Michela Paganini, Tian Huey Teh, Verena Rieser, Lora Aroyo
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"Just a strange pic": Evaluating 'safety' in GenAI Image safety annotation tasks from diverse annotators' perspectives
Understanding what constitutes safety in AI-generated content is complex. While developers often rely on predefined taxonomies, real-world safety judgments also involve personal, social, and cultural perceptions of harm. This paper examines how annotators evaluate the safety of AI-generated images, focusing on the qualitative reasoning behind their judgments. Analyzing 5,372 open-ended comments, we find that annotators consistently invoke moral, emotional, and contextual reasoning that extends …

RightTyper: Effective and Efficient Type Annotation for Python
Juan Altmayer Pizzorno, Emery D. Berger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16051 https://

RightTyper: Effective and Efficient Type Annotation for Python
Python type annotations bring the benefits of static type checking to the language. However, manually writing annotations can be time-consuming and tedious. The result is that most real-world Python code remains largely untyped. Past approaches to annotating types in Python code fall short in a number of ways. Static approaches struggle with dynamic features and infer overly broad types. AI-based methods are inherently unsound and can miss rare or user-defined types. Dynamic methods can impose …

Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks
Hope Schroeder, Deb Roy, Jad Kabbara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15821

Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks
LLM use in annotation is becoming widespread, and given LLMs' overall promising performance and speed, simply "reviewing" LLM annotations in interpretive tasks can be tempting. In subjective annotation tasks with multiple plausible answers, reviewing LLM outputs can change the label distribution, impacting both the evaluation of LLM performance, and analysis using these labels in a social science task downstream. We conducted a pre-registered experiment with 410 unique annotators and over 7,000…

FDA panel promotes misinformation about antidepressants during pregnancy, psychiatrists say (Aria Bendix/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/fda-panel-promotes-misinformation-antidepressants-pregnancy-psychiatri-rcna220047
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p6#a250722p6

Apple was exempted from the EU's Corning deal to end exclusivity terms with OEMs, after finding products designed exclusively for Apple fall outside the market (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/19/apple-exempt-from-cornings-eu-antitrus…

Apple exempt from Corning's EU antitrust probe deal - 9to5Mac
The EC has concluded an antitrust investigation into Corning’s glass supply deals. And for once, Apple just watched from the sidelines.

A Guide for Manual Annotation of Scientific Imagery: How to Prepare for Large Projects
Azim Ahmadzadeh, Rohan Adhyapak, Armin Iraji, Kartik Chaurasiya, V Aparna, Petrus C. Martens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14801

A Guide for Manual Annotation of Scientific Imagery: How to Prepare for Large Projects
Despite the high demand for manually annotated image data, managing complex and costly annotation projects remains under-discussed. This is partly due to the fact that leading such projects requires dealing with a set of diverse and interconnected challenges which often fall outside the expertise of specific domain experts, leaving practical guidelines scarce. These challenges range widely from data collection to resource allocation and recruitment, from mitigation of biases to effective traini…

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google "strategic market status" in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds "opportunities for more innovation" (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Y Combinator filed an amicus brief in support of Epic Games in their antitrust lawsuit against Apple, calling App Store fees "a punitive tax on innovation" (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/21/y-combi…

Y Combinator backs Epic in Apple appeal - 9to5Mac
Startup accelerator (and Epic Games’ biggest investor) Y Combinator filed an amicus brief today siding with Epic in the long-running antitrust case against Apple.