Thinking about content moderation, equity, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Now: Chancellor's Fellow (~Asst. Prof) @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Past: MBZUAI, SFU, Uni of. {Sheffield, CPH}
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Thank you to the fab people who've given feedback on the piece: @annarogers.bsky.social @gavina.bsky.social @yanai.bsky.social @gattanasio.cc John Vines and Margot Mieskes <3
Addendum: LLMs cannot provide an assessment and therefore not a review. Don't make LLMs do what they can't do.
Read the full (but still very short) text here: medium.com/@adamlopez.n...
2. A review is an assessment of that argument – this is not an adversarial process, you're giving an assessment and feedback!
Briefly they are:
1. A scientific paper is an argument for a position – e.g., you believe something to be correct and validate your belief
The brain rot is sinking in if "AI" and "live action" are being used in the same description. Shame on Tribeca and whoever made this.
Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them)
Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them)
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3. A review serves multiple purposes and should reflect those purposes – you are writing reviews to help authors improve their work, and to help chairs make decisions.
Sure looks like the dictatorship of capital to me
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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them)
NLP reviews suck! But why is not clear– @aclrollingreview.bsky.social provides *a lot* of guidance for how to review, but in that, first principles get lost. So @adamlopez.bsky.social and I have written down some of our thoughts on first principles.
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