Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #rubyfiles

Most recents (9)

Read The #RubyFiles and then read this. No comment.

“Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm”

github.com/twitter/the-al…
Read 4 tweets
@elonmusk What is Project Jiminy?

Twitter ran a Machine Learning experiment on users called "Project Jiminy."

#RubyFiles ImageImageImage
@elonmusk You know. I know. They deserve to know too. Image
@elonmusk There is a reason why no one is allowed to report on The Ruby Files. I was never supposed to have these files. Our own government won’t even touch these files. Why? Because they know too.
Read 4 tweets
AI: Censorship’s Final Frontier?

🆕 CensorTrack with @PaitenIselin
@theMRC @FreeSpeechAmer

#RubyFiles #AI

newsbusters.org/blogs/free-spe…
Ruby’s investigative work, dubbed the Ruby Files, exposed how platforms like Twitter use Natural Language Processing (NLP) to “moderate or perhaps possibly censor speech.”
Ruby urged for more transparency as Big Tech continues to implement AI online.

“We need clear disclosures” for people who are working in Big Tech while simultaneously receiving funding from federal agencies.

“The point is it’s a conflict of interest,” she said.
Read 4 tweets
Developing a Federal #AI Standards Engagement Plan🧵
The Former Director of Twitters Responsible Machine Learning META division worked at Accenture.

Let's review some highlights from the below doc:

nist.gov/system/files/d…
"We encourage the United States government to adopt a similar whole-of-government approach" Image
Read 15 tweets
"In the first quarter of 2015, DARPA conducted the Twitter Bot Detection Challenge:

A 4-week competition to test the effectiveness of influence bot detection methods developed under the DARPA (SMISC) program.

The challenge was to identify influence bots supporting a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Image
Read 14 tweets
The only way to understand this data is to work backwards.

The detections show a series of words in tweets that were flagged as possible political misinfo.

All of these words were part of a larger NLP vocabulary for Twitters Machine Learning model for political misinfo🧵… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Read the article before asking any questions. The article explains the larger context.

rubymediagroup.com/twitter-artifi…
The theme that emerges from this data is that political misinformation only existed on the right. I see no evidence that political misinformation existed on the left. Several data scientists reviewed the data and confirmed this assessment to be true.
Read 44 tweets
BREAKING: An inside look at the type of content Twitter flagged for review

Thread below ⬇️
1. “This file is international. The other file was US only.”

The following screenshots will reveal the type of content Twitter was monitoring for political misinformation.

The file included dates, language & annotation. I will be sharing examples in this thread.
2. “Regarding the context on annotations- it may be interesting for people to see what we were looking for. It might strike some of your readers as interesting that we were censoring info from other places at all. Some might ask what right we had to do that.”
Read 61 tweets
BREAKING: US Political Misinfo Twitter Detection AI List

Thread Below ⬇️
1. I have obtained exclusive access to documents that have never been publicly revealed. The information I am about to share with you has never been released. This information is of public concern and the below thread includes my reporting on it.
2. I have thought long and hard about whether I should release this information. Ultimately, the public has a right to this information. Therefore, I am releasing it to you, despite my deep concerns about what this means and the possible implications.
Read 35 tweets

Related hashtags

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!