Nicholas Diakopoulos

Northwestern Prof. of Computational Journalism.

[Rahul B (@[email protected]) @rahulbot]

Excited to share results & critical reflections on an AI-assisted content audit to @ndiakopoulos & @jeremygilbert's "Generative AI in the Newsroom" blog. Looked at geography, topic & quoted speaker gender with @elisabethhadjis & @meg_heckman. https://t.co/4tnPdJY3L7

[William J. Brady @william__brady]

👋 I'm recruiting a PhD student @KelloggSchool @NorthwesternU

For students interested in themes of morality, AI, social learning, computational social science. Check out my lab here https://t.co/hE7XeKVjKE | apps due 12/15 (https://t.co/OIQj5yM5fm)

[Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwvaughan]

The FATE group at @MSFTResearch NYC is now accepting applications for 2025 interns. 🥳🎉

For full consideration, apply by December 18 and include a cover letter.

https://t.co/zQZQss34Up

Interested in AI evaluation? Apply for the STAC internship too!

https://t.co/kxkI4KU6cD

[Hannes Cools 🟥 - @hannescools.bsky.social @CoolsHannes]

✨Interested in AI disclosures in journalism from the audience perspective?
@SophieMorosoli, @RoboNaudts, @karthikeyapv and myself share some first insights from research-in-progress 👇
https://t.co/cn5hothvFu @ndiakopoulos @AIMediaDem_Lab

[Abdo El Ali @abdoelali]

We're excited to bring the 4th Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2025) to Amsterdam! 🌷🚲

🔗 https://t.co/x3w6G4Dzv6
📆 June 23-25, 2025
📍 @CWInl, Amsterdam

Papers d/l: January 31, 2025 (AoE)

cc @ShadanSB @Carilall @erinsolovey @philwintersberg @chinl

[Nicholas Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos]

Today on the Generative AI in the Newsroom blog we have results of new focus group research on how news audiences think about AI labels for content: https://t.co/xfx6JtTXxC

[Julia Barnett @JuliaBarnettEdu]

At @ISMIRConf this week in San Francisco presenting my work (today) with @hugggof and Bryan Pardo on training data attribution of generative music models! Come say hi if you're around, and read our paper here: https://t.co/IP8676ZGDw

[Mowafak Allaham @mowafakallaham]

Checkout new work with @KieslichKimon & @ndiakopoulos accepted to @NeurIPSConf showing how fine-tuning Mistral-7B on negative impacts of AI reported in news media can capture a wider range of categories of impacts that GPT-4 had gaps in covering. https://t.co/SBWYCQZRh4

[Nicholas Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos]

“Mr. Biden waited so long to abandon his re-election bid that Ms. Harris effectively inherited the nomination without having to ask voters their opinion.” https://t.co/LQMBYi9rd8

[Karyn Riddle @KarynRiddle7]

My department is hiring in the area of AI! Come join a collegial, collaborative, multi-method group of scholars at UW-Madison's @uw_sjmc

https://t.co/fcguo8ZYG6

[Jason Farman @farman]

This is my 15th year at @UofMaryland and I've never seen anything like this: The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute has openings for *30* (!) tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. https://t.co/qOUF60qpBV

[Olga Khazan ME, BUT BETTER @olgakhazan]

This is such a good explanation of why you can't really trust the polls: https://t.co/82SotBUyzA

[Julia Barnett @JuliaBarnettEdu]

At @AIESConf this week presenting on recent work with @KieslichKimon and @ndiakopoulos on a scenario building approach that leverages LLMs and human input to understand the perceived mitigation impact of policy on a set of harms.

Would love to talk if you're around!

#aies2024

[Nicholas Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos]

I analyzed more than 800 written scenarios to better understand how writers around the world thought the information ecosystem might change in 5, 10, or 15+ years due to AI. https://t.co/1rdrvCx4tS

[AAAS Mass Media Fellowship @AAASMassMedia]

Are you ready to try something new and work in #SciComm?

Apply by Jan 1, 2025 to be a part of #MMF50th and join an alumni cohort of over 850 as you spend the summer using your STEM background as a journalist writing the news!

https://t.co/Sj4uxtuSRw

[Nicholas Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos]

What's the defense in all those generative AI + copyright cases? Attorney and professor Nina Brown walks us through the arguments around the idea/expression dichotomy and fair use defense on the GAIN blog here: https://t.co/N8EzFPRn71

[Rahul B (@[email protected]) @rahulbot]

Computation + Journalism full schedule is live. Hope to see you all here later this month! I'm talking AI-assisted content audits w/@meg_heckman & getting hands-on with data physicalization w/@rusosnith https://t.co/yqMGwwQ1vn

[MaryJo Webster @MaryJoWebster]

Fellow data journos! It's time to start pitching your ideas for panels/classes at #NICAR25, which will be in Minneapolis March 6-9. Pitch form is open until Oct 21.
https://t.co/C2p7EZvYEZ

[Nicholas Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos]

Here's @JuliaBarnettEdu with status on the GenAI Copyright lawsuits currently being litigated in the US. How could these all play out? More details on the GAIN blog here: https://t.co/7laiA9q3bh

[Nicholas Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos]

The program for the Computation+Journalism Symposium looks amazing! Panels on LLMs & AI, intersection w/ audiences, investigative applications, impact on local. I'll be there at Northeastern in Boston Oct 25-27 -- hope to see you there! https://t.co/y1QqTikkTQ