@hfordsa

Author, "Writing the Revolution" @mitpress (out Nov 15). Associate Prof @UTSFass. @oiioxford @BerkeleyISchool alumnus

 Sydney, New South Wales
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Friday essay: shaping history – why I spent ten years studying one Wikipedia article theconversation.com/friday-e… via @ConversationEDU

Friday essay: shaping history – why I spent ten years studying one Wikipedia article

How are Wikipedia pages about contentious events put together? Heather Ford discovered a hotbed of passion, a rotating pack of editors and a struggle for power behind its mirage of neutrality.

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🚨 Our new report is here!⁠ @Wikipedia's representation of #Australian places is often sanitised, our report finds. Read it on wikihistories.net.⁠⁠ @wikihistories @utsfass x @utsresearch⁠⁠ #wikihistories #australia #utsresearch #wikimedia⁠⁠
🚨 Content Warning for First Nations Peoples: please be advised that this report may contain comments from participants and content from articles that some might find distressing and that relate to settler-colonial violence and racism. The wikihistories research project is located on the lands of the Gadigal people. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

ALT 🚨 Content Warning for First Nations Peoples: please be advised that this report may contain comments from participants and content from articles that some might find distressing and that relate to settler-colonial violence and racism. The wikihistories research project is located on the lands of the Gadigal people. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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📢 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: AI for Social Good | Co-creating sustainable AI + Climate Futures 📅 November 7-8, 2024 📍 @GI_Bangalore 🔗 lnkd.in/gvzXhuQX Apply by Nov 1! @algorithmwatch @helloQS @Info_Activism @urvashi_aneja
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🚀We're happy to announce #SuperchargedbyAI, a creative intervention about the effects of AI on our online lives covering scams, harassment, polarisation and bias. A collab between @Info_Activism, @DensityDesign and @IFLA, funded by @EMIF_Fund. Learn more: theglassroom.org/supercharge…
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We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some of them sanitise history theconversation.com/we-analy… via @ConversationEDU @UTSFass @UTSEngage

We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some of them sanitise history

The first project to examine Australian Wikipedia entries finds topics such as Australian history and use of First Nations place names are sparking ‘edit wars’, with some serious omissions.

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We analysed 35,000 #Wikipedia entries about #Australian places. #wikihistories Read our latest from @wikihistories team on @ConversationEDU. @Wikipedia @wm_au @Wikimedia @UTSEngage @UTSResearch @UTSFass theconversation.com/we-analy…

We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some of them sanitise history

The first project to examine Australian Wikipedia entries finds topics such as Australian history and use of First Nations place names are sparking ‘edit wars’, with some serious omissions.

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#Wikipedia articles re. #Australia is overwhelmingly centred on cities, a @wikihistories research has found, with negative aspects of a place sometimes #sanitised in articles by editors. @ConversationEDU
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@Wikipedia often avoid mention of #discriminatory @ausgov policies or violence against #FirstNations Australians. Only 6% of #Australian places are given their First Nation names on #Wikipedia, along with an English one, acc. to our research @wikihistories. @UTSFass @wm_au
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📍🗺️Geolocating photos & videos is key to building evidence when investigating events. In this talk, open-source researcher @robintayloor will walk you through cases & practical verification methods, including OSINT & free mapping tools. Book your spot: exposingtheinvisible.org/en/…
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“What happens to Wikipedia in an age of large language models, which threaten both the sustainability of peer knowledge projects and their verifiability?” Professor @hfordsa talks about this matter. Read the main points on @EthanZ’s blog: ethanzuckerman.com/2023/10/1…

Heather Ford: Is the Web Eating Itself? LLMs versus verifiability - Ethan Zuckerman

Can Wikipedia and other open knowledge projects survive the rise of LLMs? Dr. Heather Ford offers a path forward through verifiability.

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Coming up next week: @KleinGraduate's Speaker Series features @hfordsa who will unravel the story behind the 2011 Egyptian Revolution Wikipedia article. Be part of the conversation. events.temple.edu/graduate-s…
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Who writes history in the age of algorithms? Explore the dance between human writers and algorithms in shaping narratives on platforms like Wikipedia with @hfordsa as part of @KleinGraduate's Speaker Series. Register to attend: events.temple.edu/graduate-s…
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"Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project" - new journal article with @andrewiliadis on Wikidata's importance and politics #wikidata cc @WikiResearch journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Th...

Wikidata is a knowledge base (i.e., a database of facts) project of the Wikimedia Foundation and a sister project to Wikipedia that contains billions of facts t...

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I loved working on this paper with @sjgknight @ShibaniAntonett & Simon Chambers about how open data (in this case Wikipedia citations) don't always travel well when extracted into new contexts.
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Overblown fears of AI's potential destructiveness; excessive faith in its ability; plus - its truly transformational qualities. The first Humanising #AI Futures symposium at @UTSEngage heard it all, reports @zacnikolovski @UTSFass @hfordsa @hahhh #ChatGPT centralnews.com.au/2023/08/0…
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People haven't been paying attention to the issue of the detection of AI outputs, this is really important. If we can't accurately detect AI use, then how will any human-only requirement be met in all walks of life? Academia, copyright, etc.
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@kevinafischer25 Jul 2023
OpenAI quietly shut down their AI classifier As I mentioned before, this product is not feasible or possible to create - with skilled operators GPT’s output cannot be distinguished from human output, and in many cases is better than the human output alone
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"Humanising AI Futures: Reimagining data and AI for a future worth wanting" is now a hybrid event. Happening tomorrow 9am AEST. Keynote by Prof. Heather Horst and presentations by 8 UTS research centres on current AI ethics projects. Register here events.humanitix.com/humanis…

Humanising AI Futures: Reimagining data and AI for a future worth wanting

Get tickets on Humanitix - Humanising AI Futures: Reimagining data and AI for a future worth wanting hosted by UTS Data and AI Ethics Cluster. Find event information.

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Don't miss the @UTSFass half day symposium on Humanising AI Futures this Friday! CMT Co-Director @AttardMon and Research Fellow @ozymandavis are set to discuss how journalists use AI - register here ⬇️ uts.edu.au/about/faculty-art…
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Super excited for our "Humanising AI Futures: Reimagining data and AI for a future worth wanting" symposium at @UTSEngage this Friday. Due to popular demand we will also be streaming the symposium for those out of town lnkd.in/gAuwF9fF

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