Hit ’em where it hurts… La Suisse pourrait en tirer des leçons…
https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/2025/article/pix-le-systeme-de-paiement-bresilien-qui-bouscule-l-hegemonie-americaine-28962023.html
'Our research suggests large language models exhibit parahuman responses to persuasion techniques, despite not being human. This suggests that social scientists have a valuable role to play in understanding AI behavior.' https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/researc
Hit ’em where it hurts… La Suisse pourrait en tirer des leçons…
https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/2025/article/pix-le-systeme-de-paiement-bresilien-qui-bouscule-l-hegemonie-americaine-28962023.html
Hit ’em where it hurts… La Suisse pourrait en tirer des leçons…
https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/2025/article/pix-le-systeme-de-paiement-bresilien-qui-bouscule-l-hegemonie-americaine-28962023.html
Playing with a notebook* by @wjbmattingly.bsky.social that implements docling. The easyOCR results are incredibly good but the glitches are really interesting - it interpreted a handwritten accession number as 'Cocainery' a name used in the doc
* https://github.com/wjbmat…
You can preach that "empathy is a sin" and rail others up against shared civilisatory achievements and values.
And you can do so for clicks, political influence and a lot - a lot - of money.
And you might do so believing yourself to exist in a world of pure #kayfabe entertainment, a mere show that transforms hate into dopamin without any relation to "ontic" reali…
'Are you a data professional, researcher or practitioner (user) working with data within or across communities and sectors? This survey is for you!' https://qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_9S7AtciBfXf9K9o
Via Melissa Terras on a DH mailing list, so GLAMs…
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Join me at two events at the British Library later this month:
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/knowledge-is-human
On 20 October, the British Library is joining forces with Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation to explore the impact of AI on ope…