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View article: Simulating Teams with LLM Agents: Interactive 2D Environments for Studying Human-AI Dynamics
Simulating Teams with LLM Agents: Interactive 2D Environments for Studying Human-AI Dynamics Open
Enabling users to create their own simulations offers a powerful way to study team dynamics and performance. We introduce VirTLab, a system that allows researchers and practitioners to design interactive, customizable simulations of team d…
View article: VIRT-LAB: An AI-Powered System for Flexible, Customizable, and Large-scale Team Simulations
VIRT-LAB: An AI-Powered System for Flexible, Customizable, and Large-scale Team Simulations Open
Simulating how team members collaborate within complex environments using Agentic AI is a promising approach to explore hypotheses grounded in social science theories and study team behaviors. We introduce VirtLab, a user-friendly, customi…
View article: Span-Oriented Information Extraction -- A Unifying Perspective on Information Extraction
Span-Oriented Information Extraction -- A Unifying Perspective on Information Extraction Open
Information Extraction refers to a collection of tasks within Natural Language Processing (NLP) that identifies sub-sequences within text and their labels. These tasks have been used for many years to link extract relevant information and …
View article: An Avalanche of Images on Telegram Preceded Russia's Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
An Avalanche of Images on Telegram Preceded Russia's Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine Open
Governments use propaganda, including through visual content -- or Politically Salient Image Patterns (PSIP) -- on social media, to influence and manipulate public opinion. In the present work, we collected Telegram post-history of from 98…
View article: Online media literacy intervention in Indonesia reduces misinformation sharing intention
Online media literacy intervention in Indonesia reduces misinformation sharing intention Open
Media literacy is widely viewed as an important tool in the fight against the spread of misinformation online. However, efforts to boost media literacy have primarily focused on Western-media and Western-oriented social media platforms, wh…
View article: MEWS: Real-time Social Media Manipulation Detection and Analysis
MEWS: Real-time Social Media Manipulation Detection and Analysis Open
This article presents a beta-version of MEWS (Misinformation Early Warning System). It describes the various aspects of the ingestion, manipulation detection, and graphing algorithms employed to determine--in near real-time--the relationsh…
View article: Pilot study suggests online media literacy programming reduces belief in false news in Indonesia
Pilot study suggests online media literacy programming reduces belief in false news in Indonesia Open
Amidst the threat of digital misinformation, we offer a pilot study regarding the efficacy of an online social media literacy campaign aimed at empowering individuals in Indonesia with skills to help them identify misinformation. We found …
View article: Pilot Study Suggests Online Media Literacy Programming Reduces Belief in False News in Indonesia
Pilot Study Suggests Online Media Literacy Programming Reduces Belief in False News in Indonesia Open
Amidst the threat of digital misinformation, we offer a pilot study regarding the efficacy of an online social media literacy campaign aimed at empowering individuals in Indonesia with skills to help them identify misinformation. We found …
View article: Meme warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes
Meme warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes Open
From QAnon conspiracy theories to Russian government sponsored election interference, social media disinformation campaigns are a part of online life, and identifying these threats amid the posts that billions of social media users upload …
View article: An AI early warning system to monitor online disinformation, stop violence, and protect elections
An AI early warning system to monitor online disinformation, stop violence, and protect elections Open
We're developing an AI early warning system to monitor how manipulated content online such as altered photos in memes leads, in some cases, to violent conflict and societal instability. It can also potentially interfere with democratic ele…