Notices by Fil Menczer (fil@fediscience.org)

This article argues that the outsized productivity of a few large research centers, like OSoMe, demonstrates the value of shared infrastructure & tool investments.

How to scale up such efforts to improve today’s corrupted information environment?

https://thebulletin.org/2024/03/how-to-better-study-and-then-improve-todays-corrupted-information-environment/

On Wednesday, OSoMe Awesome Speaker David Rand will talk about "Reducing misinformation sharing on social media using digital ads" at 12pm ET.

Register here: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkd--trzMtGNOckDXL5JuINY45D8rqI5z2

AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-davos-misinformation-disinformation-climate-change-106a1347ca9f987bf71da1f86a141968

Check out the highlights of the many activities of the Observatory during the last year in our latest report:

https://osome.iu.edu/research/blog/osome-report-2022-2023

About @yangkc's and my discovery of a malicious ChatGPT-driven botnet demonstrating how AI can be (and is) readily applied to do evil things
https://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-flooded-spammy-ai-content-2023-8