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Guillaume Chaslot
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Feb 9, 2021

Google Autocomplete Pushed Civil War narrative, Covid Disinfo, and Global Warming Denial

Despite few people actually searching for that — Here’s what Google looked like for months at the end of 2020 and on January 6th before the invasion of the capitol: (all searches were done in incognito from NYC) The first thought that came to my mind was: maybe users are looking for these terms, and the algorithm is…

Google

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Google Autocomplete Pushed Civil War narrative, Covid Disinfo, and Global Warming Denial
Google Autocomplete Pushed Civil War narrative, Covid Disinfo, and Global Warming Denial
Google

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Aug 2, 2018

China Television and Russia Today Disinformation after the World Cup

After France’s soccer world cup victory, millions went in the street to celebrate. Many people came from the suburbs, often proudly wearing French flags to party on the streets. Later in the evening, a fraction of this celebration turned violent. …

Politics

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China Television and Russia Today Disinformation after the World Cup
China Television and Russia Today Disinformation after the World Cup
Politics

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Feb 1, 2018

How Algorithms Can Learn to Discredit “the Media”

Defamation is efficient, and AIs may have already figured it out — During a long bus ride across France, my neighbor was watching YouTube for hours, watching the auto-play recommendations at the end of the video. Since I worked on the algorithm that computes these recommendations, I was curious what they were about. In one of these videos, the topic was the…

YouTube

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How Algorithms Can Learn to Discredit “the Media”
How Algorithms Can Learn to Discredit “the Media”
YouTube

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Dec 8, 2017

Comment des algorithmes peuvent apprendre à discréditer les médias

Diffamer les concurrents est une stratégie efficace pour gagner de l’audience. Les Intelligences Artificielles de YouTube et Facebook s’en sont rendu compte. — Lors d’un interminable trajet en car, mon voisin passe son temps sur YouTube. Comme j’ai travaillé sur l’algorithme qui fait les recommandations, une certaine fierté m’incite à regarder de plus près. Dans ces vidéos, il est question d’un projet visant à exterminer deux milliards de personnes. Je blague: “Alors qui…

Artificial Intelligence

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Comment des algorithmes peuvent apprendre à discréditer les médias
Comment des algorithmes peuvent apprendre à discréditer les médias
Artificial Intelligence

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Mar 31, 2017

How YouTube’s A.I. boosts alternative facts

YouTube’s recommendation A.I. is designed to maximize the time users spend online. Fiction often outperforms reality. — We all heard about conspiracy theories, alternative facts and fake news circulating on the internet. How do they become so popular? What’s the impact of the state-of-the-art algorithms on their success? …

YouTube

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How YouTube’s A.I. boosts alternative facts
How YouTube’s A.I. boosts alternative facts
YouTube

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Jan 16, 2017

Hundreds of videos were removed from YouTube after the US presidential election

More than one fourth of videos recommended on election eve have since been removed. Why? — On the eve of the US presidential election, we used this recommendation explorer to extract a sample of 800 unique videos recommended by YouTube in response to searches about a presidential candidates. More than 200 of these videos have since been removed, some of them by YouTube, and others by…

Politics

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Hundreds of videos were removed from YouTube after the US presidential election
Hundreds of videos were removed from YouTube after the US presidential election
Politics

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·Nov 27, 2016

YouTube’s A.I. was divisive in the US presidential election

YouTube’s Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) recommends tens of billions of videos every single day, yielding billions of views. On the eve of the US Presidential Election, we gathered recommendation data on the two main candidates, and found that more than 80% of recommended videos were favorable to Trump, whether the initial…

2016 Election

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YouTube’s A.I. was divisive in the US presidential election
YouTube’s A.I. was divisive in the US presidential election
2016 Election

5 min read

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