How African NLP Experts Are Navigating the Challenges of Copyright, Innovation, and Access carnegieendowment.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from carnegieendowment.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Growing concern surrounds the impact of social media platforms on public discourse1–4 and their influence on social dynamics5–9, especially in the context of toxicity10–12. Here, to better understand these phenomena, we use a comparative approach to isolate human behavioural patterns across multiple social media platforms. In particular, we analyse conversations in different online communities, focusing on identifying consistent patterns of toxic content. Drawing from an extensive dataset that spans eight platforms over 34 years—from Usenet to contemporary social media—our findings show consistent conversation patterns and user behaviour, irrespective of the platform, topic or time. Notably, although long conversations consistently exhibit higher toxicity, toxic language does not invariably discourage people from participating in a conversation, and toxicity does not necessarily escalate as discussions evolve. Our analysis suggests that debates and contras
Data Quality May Be All You Need – Communications of the ACM acm.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from acm.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Resolving the Human-subjects Status of Machine Learning's Crowdworkers acm.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from acm.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.