Jake BrowningApr 173 minCritical Comment on "The Psychology of Misinformation"The Psychology of Misinformation, by Roozenbeek and van der Linden, is an excellent book. Short, balanced, readable. The authors are also...
Jake BrowningMar 127 minCopyright and Generative AIThe recent wave of cases concerning generative AI, such as Silverman v OpenAI, have not gone well. From a legal perspective, this isn't...
Jake BrowningJan 195 minWhy isn't Multimodality Making Language Models Smarter?Philosophy has something called the "symbol grounding" problem. The basic question is whether the words and sentences of language need to...
Jake BrowningJan 125 minThe Pre-History of Misinformation Studies (or "Why Misinformation Studies is Problematic")Every once in awhile, someone reinvents a wheel. This is especially common in academia, since there is just so many papers in so many...