Nicholas Diakopoulos

“Mr. Biden waited so long to abandon his re-election bid that Ms. Harris effectively inherited the nomination without having to ask voters their opinion.” nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/…

Excited to share results & critical reflections on an AI-assisted content audit to @ndiakopoulos & @jeremygilbert's "Generative AI in the Newsroom" blog. Looked at geography, topic & quoted speaker gender with @elisabethhadjis & @meg_heckman. generative-ai-newsroom.com/ai-powered-con…

👋 I'm recruiting a PhD student @KelloggSchool @NorthwesternU For students interested in themes of morality, AI, social learning, computational social science. Check out my lab here shorturl.at/OcVpx | apps due 12/15 (shorturl.at/028CE)

The FATE group at @MSFTResearch NYC is now accepting applications for 2025 interns. 🥳🎉 For full consideration, apply by December 18 and include a cover letter. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… Interested in AI evaluation? Apply for the STAC internship too! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

✨Interested in AI disclosures in journalism from the audience perspective? @SophieMorosoli, @RoboNaudts, @karthikeyapv and myself share some first insights from research-in-progress 👇 generative-ai-newsroom.com/why-bother-wit… @ndiakopoulos @AIMediaDem_Lab

We're excited to bring the 4th Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2025) to Amsterdam! 🌷🚲 🔗 chiwork.org 📆 June 23-25, 2025 📍 @CWInl, Amsterdam Papers d/l: January 31, 2025 (AoE) cc @ShadanSB @Carilall @erinsolovey @philwintersberg @chinl

Today on the Generative AI in the Newsroom blog we have results of new focus group research on how news audiences think about AI labels for content: generative-ai-newsroom.com/why-bother-wit…

At @ISMIRConf this week in San Francisco presenting my work (today) with @hugggof and Bryan Pardo on training data attribution of generative music models! Come say hi if you're around, and read our paper here: ismir2024program.ismir.net/poster_81.html

Checkout new work with @KieslichKimon & @ndiakopoulos accepted to @NeurIPSConf showing how fine-tuning Mistral-7B on negative impacts of AI reported in news media can capture a wider range of categories of impacts that GPT-4 had gaps in covering. arxiv.org/abs/2411.02536

My department is hiring in the area of AI! Come join a collegial, collaborative, multi-method group of scholars at UW-Madison's @uw_sjmc jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…

This is my 15th year at @UofMaryland and I've never seen anything like this: The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute has openings for *30* (!) tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. ejobs.umd.edu/postings/124144

This is such a good explanation of why you can't really trust the polls: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

At @AIESConf this week presenting on recent work with @KieslichKimon and @ndiakopoulos on a scenario building approach that leverages LLMs and human input to understand the perceived mitigation impact of policy on a set of harms. Would love to talk if you're around! #aies2024

I analyzed more than 800 written scenarios to better understand how writers around the world thought the information ecosystem might change in 5, 10, or 15+ years due to AI. generative-ai-newsroom.com/anticipating-a…

Are you ready to try something new and work in #SciComm? Apply by Jan 1, 2025 to be a part of #MMF50th and join an alumni cohort of over 850 as you spend the summer using your STEM background as a journalist writing the news! aaas.org/mmf

What's the defense in all those generative AI + copyright cases? Attorney and professor Nina Brown walks us through the arguments around the idea/expression dichotomy and fair use defense on the GAIN blog here: generative-ai-newsroom.com/the-copyright-…

Computation + Journalism full schedule is live. Hope to see you all here later this month! I'm talking AI-assisted content audits w/@meg_heckman & getting hands-on with data physicalization w/@rusosnith idi.provost.northeastern.edu/event-director…

Fellow data journos! It's time to start pitching your ideas for panels/classes at #NICAR25, which will be in Minneapolis March 6-9. Pitch form is open until Oct 21. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Here's @JuliaBarnettEdu with status on the GenAI Copyright lawsuits currently being litigated in the US. How could these all play out? More details on the GAIN blog here: generative-ai-newsroom.com/the-current-st…

The program for the Computation+Journalism Symposium looks amazing! Panels on LLMs & AI, intersection w/ audiences, investigative applications, impact on local. I'll be there at Northeastern in Boston Oct 25-27 -- hope to see you there! idi.provost.northeastern.edu/event-director…