Apr 29, 2023 | News, Recent Press, Updates
News coverage from April 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers. Undark (April 6): “ChatGPT isn’t ‘hallucinating.’ It’s bullshitting.” CIP faculty member and UW Biology professor Carl Bergstrom co-authored an Undark...
Apr 26, 2023 | News, Research, Updates
In “Mobilizing manufactured reality: How participatory disinformation shaped deep stories to catalyze action during the 2020 U.S. presidential election,” published April 16 in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), a group of CIP-affiliated...
Apr 24, 2023 | News, Updates
Like many organizations on Twitter that had verified “blue checkmark” accounts on the social media platform, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public lost its legacy checkmark last week due to ongoing changes under Twitter owner Elon Musk. While...
Apr 4, 2023 | News, Recent Press, Updates
In a March 31 opinion in The Seattle Times about AI chatbots, University of Washington Center for an Informed Public co-founder Jevin West says that chatbots will be “vectors of propaganda,” make it harder to discern truth and further erode trust in institutions. In...
