Doug Webb
Working out solutions to #sybilAttack is not a concern limited to cryptobros, but to anyone interested in distributed, digital direct-democracy.
Jun 26, 2022 at 1:13pmWeb
Show threadwas B (this is my old account)Jun 26, 2022
@douginamug And other consultative practices. I'm finishing preparing for a talk tomorrow where I talk about AI and generative technologies and the dangers to participatory processes in governance (which pre-date the even more sophisticated stuff we have now)
https://hackernoon.com/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6
More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked | HackerNoon

<em>[Update on 11–29–2017: I’ve posted multiple </em><a href="https://www.kaggle.com/jeffkao/proc_17_108_unique_comments_text_dupe_count" target="_blank"><em>datasets</em></a><em> and my </em><a href="https://github.com/j2kao/fcc_nn_research" target="_blank"><em>code</em></a><em> containing enough for you to reproduce the analysis. Please share with the rest of us what else you find — *gets on soapbox* — a free internet will always be filled with competing narratives, but well-researched, reproducible data analyses can establish a ground truth and help cut through all of that. Look forward to seeing your analyses & there will be more data to come!]</em>

Show threadDoug WebbJun 26, 2022
@b_cavello ooo! Can I see it?