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You probably know I get frowny when browser makers lie about support or pretend their late implementation of a feature is somehow new, so I am suffering from a bunch of confirmation bias (and validation) here:
“Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past”
https://infrequently.org/2025…

Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

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It's only fair when I think it's fair: How Gender Bias Alignment Undermines Distributive Fairness in Human-AI Collaboration
Human-AI collaboration is increasingly relevant in consequential areas where AI recommendations support human discretion. However, human-AI teams' effectiveness, capability, and fairness highly depend on human perceptions of AI. Positive fairness perceptions have been shown to foster trust and acceptance of AI recommendations. Yet, work on confirmation bias highlights that humans selectively adhere to AI recommendations that align with their expectations and beliefs -- despite not being necessa…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04629 has been replaced.
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Argumentative Experience: Reducing Confirmation Bias on Controversial Issues through LLM-Generated Multi-Persona Debates
Large language models (LLMs) are enabling designers to give life to exciting new user experiences for information access. In this work, we present a system that generates LLM personas to debate a topic of interest from different perspectives. How might information seekers use and benefit from such a system? Can centering information access around diverse viewpoints help to mitigate thorny challenges like confirmation bias in which information seekers over-trust search results matching existing …