The benefits, risks and bounds of personalizing the alignment of large language models to individuals

HR Kirk, B Vidgen, P Röttger, SA Hale - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024‏ - nature.com
Large language models (LLMs) undergo 'alignment'so that they better reflect human values
or preferences, and are safer or more useful. However, alignment is intrinsically difficult …

[HTML][HTML] Misinformation: susceptibility, spread, and interventions to immunize the public

S Van Der Linden - Nature medicine, 2022‏ - nature.com
The spread of misinformation poses a considerable threat to public health and the
successful management of a global pandemic. For example, studies find that exposure to …

Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media

J Roozenbeek, S Van Der Linden, B Goldberg… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Online misinformation continues to have adverse consequences for society. Inoculation
theory has been put forward as a way to reduce susceptibility to misinformation by informing …

Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time

M Avalle, N Di Marco, G Etta, E Sangiorgio, S Alipour… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Growing concern surrounds the impact of social media platforms on public discourse,,–and
their influence on social dynamics,,,–, especially in the context of toxicity,–. Here, to better …

Fake news, social media and marketing: A systematic review

G Di Domenico, J Sit, A Ishizaka, D Nunan - Journal of business research, 2021‏ - Elsevier
There is growing concern amongst policy makers, managers and academic researchers
over the role that social media plays in spreading misinformation, widely described as 'Fake …

The COVID-19 social media infodemic

M Cinelli, W Quattrociocchi, A Galeazzi… - Scientific reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
We address the diffusion of information about the COVID-19 with a massive data analysis on
Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab. We analyze engagement and interest in the …

Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

JJV Bavel, K Baicker, PS Boggio, V Capraro… - Nature human …, 2020‏ - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis
requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on …

Echo chambers on social media: A systematic review of the literature

LTL Terren, RBBR Borge-Bravo - Review of Communication …, 2021‏ - rcommunicationr.org
There have been growing concerns regarding the potential impact of social media on
democracy and public debate. While some theorists have claimed that ICTs and social …

[HTML][HTML] An exploratory study of COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter

GK Shahi, A Dirkson, TA Majchrzak - Online social networks and media, 2021‏ - Elsevier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become a home ground for
misinformation. To tackle this infodemic, scientific oversight, as well as a better …

[HTML][HTML] Countering misinformation

J Roozenbeek, E Culloty, J Suiter - European Psychologist, 2023‏ - econtent.hogrefe.com
Develo** effective interventions to counter misinformation is an urgent goal, but it also
presents conceptual, empirical, and practical difficulties, compounded by the fact that …