Caitlin Appert-Nguyen

Comms @BerkeleyISchool. Mom x3. Passionate about public health, working/parenting, baking, reading! She/her. Black lives matter!

[Caitlin Appert-Nguyen @caityapp]

If ChatGPT were a person, they’d be well-versed in the classic novels you probably read in high school. But there’s also a good chance they’d watch Doctor Who and know their way around a Dungeons and Dragons game… ahhh!!

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@dbamman, @KentKChang, @soni_sandeep, and undergrad apprentice @kenziehanh published a study that found that ChatGPT was trained on reading materials widely available on the web 📚

Specifically:
- Sci-fi/fantasy
-Books in public domain

https://t.co/petT1j2P7k

[Caitlin Appert-Nguyen @caityapp]

👏👏👏 go Nitin!

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Three-time UC Berkeley graduate Nitin Kohli (MIDS ’15, Ph.D. ’21) has been awarded the prestigious iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award!

His dissertation examined how to design algorithms to create “privacy-protective statistics.” 🔍 @Cal
https://t.co/eVGsZP54nS

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Deepfake technology is getting more advanced, but it's not fooling the courts.

Hany Farid speaks on the challenges of detecting #deepfakes in court @NPR
https://t.co/ei7y2HKwpj

[Caitlin Appert-Nguyen @caityapp]

This makes me so proud to be a part of the I School! These students are stellar examples of the outstanding interdisciplinary research at the intersection of technology and society happening @BerkeleyISchool 💙

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Ph.D. students @NaitianZhou, @chasejstokes, and @lauren_marietta were awarded the highly prestigious @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award! 👏 👏

Find out more:
https://t.co/td0QAKPCk5

[Caitlin Appert-Nguyen @caityapp]

Please join me in helping the I School reach 200 donors today!

The students and researchers at the I School are doing the critical work of examing the ethical implications of technology.

Make a $10 gift here before 9pm: https://t.co/hxeVFqlFh7

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6 hours left! If we get 200 unique donors (we're 1/3 of the way there!) we win additional funds! Give now & make an immediate impact where it's most needed, funding research & supporting students at the #ISchool. 🌟

Every gift makes a BIG difference!
🎁 https://t.co/uWK66u78JW

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In 2020, I School Prof. @jblumenstock, his @UCBerkeley lab & @GiveDirectly used AI to help deliver aid in Togo to those hardest hit by the pandemic. Now, a similar approach is being used in the U.S., helping residents in the wake of Hurricane Ian —https://t.co/y3YoEOYSoy

[Caitlin Appert-Nguyen @caityapp]

SO BUMMED I can't make this (committed to 4th grade camping trip), but how amazing that @UCBEnglish will have @legroff here?!?!! 🤩🤩UGH!

[UC Berkeley English @UCBEnglish]

We're very excited about this upcoming event with @NewLitProject! Lauren Groff, acclaimed author of 'Matrix' and winner of the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, will be in conversation with NLP Simpson Fellow Ryan Lackey. October 13th at 6:30, Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room (Rm.315).

[Berkeley School of Information @BerkeleyISchool]

Are you tuning in to Dr. Farid's talk on Disinformation & Deepfakes? https://t.co/2Www8q56EL

Sharing some of the research and links he is referencing below⬇️

[Caitlin Appert-Nguyen @caityapp]

Looking forward to these talks!

[Berkeley School of Information @BerkeleyISchool]

ANNOUNCING our Fall 2022 Distinguished Speaker Series on Trustworthy Information! 💬

5 luminaries in their fields: Dr. Hany Farid, @jeffhancock, @JessicaHullman, @katestarbird, & @DG_Rand, will discuss the challenges of battling misinformation.

🔗 https://t.co/Q8rwSzS8gg

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The @UCBerkeley Master of Information & Cybersecurity (MICS) was recognized as the #️⃣1️⃣ online master's in cybersecurity by @FortuneMagazine! 🏆

#BerkeleyCyber @CLTCBerkeley @BerkeleyData @BerkeleyDataSci
https://t.co/P92qYaeGOg

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

Oh for fuck's sake. GOP what's your reasoning here? It's so damn important to you that domestic abusers be able to buy guns?!?!! What is wrong with you?

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

A quick thread on extremists targeting Pride and drag queen events:

You’re not imagining it. Threats against these communities are increasing.

Targeted threats canceled Pride events and forced people out of their homes in the last week.

It's part of a new anti-trans "machine."

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#BerkeleyTalks 🎧“Remember that when you’re on the right side, everything is going to try to tell you that you’re not, that you’re wrong."—@timnitGebru to @BerkeleyISchool grads #podcast https://t.co/OMrZkw8oAI

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As access barriers to in-person abortion care increase due to legal & COVID-related disruptions, individuals turn to the internet for info on at-home medication abortions.

New #BerkeleyResearch from @BerkeleyISchool @UCBerkeleySPH & @BerkeleyDataSci.
https://t.co/QGWO3AAK8r

[Caitlin Appert-Nguyen @caityapp]

Shared with permission. 4/4

[Caitlin Appert-Nguyen @caityapp]

I can’t stop thinking about this post by my younger son’s kindergarten teacher. This is his class in Berkeley, CA. She’s teaching 5 year olds how to read, how to be part of a class community, and how to hide and be very quiet. And putting their lives ahead of her own. My god. 1/

[Caitlin Appert-Nguyen @caityapp]

…to save theirs. I don’t think about how my two boys would have to life without a mother. I think of your children. And what I would do to protect them. School should be a safe place and a sanctuary of love. This must stop now.” 3/

[Katelyn Burns @transscribe]

If a weapon is so dangerous that a squad of police officers are too afraid to confront a single person wielding it, that weapon should be banned.