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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Misinformation
The prevalence of misinformation and disinformation has become visibly pronounced since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. However, both concepts unarguably preceded the pandemic. While both concepts are similar, the key difference between misinformation and disinformation is the element of intent. Misinformation involves the intention to maliciously mislead by propagating false and often harmful information.…
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Chat GPT : The AI Bias Conundrum
Chat GPT is all abuzz now and of course, its popularity brings about trust and safety questions. A recent LinkedIn post got me thinking about AI bias. This post talked about how a Chat GPT prompt to joke about Christianity/Islam returned an automated message refusing to make jokes about religion and stating that ‘making jokes…
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CONTENT MODERATION AND WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU
Have you ever scrolled randomly through your Twitter timeline and a trigger warning sign popped up? Or watched a TikToker complain about how their video was taken down. Perhaps your Instagram post on COVID-19 has a COVID-19 Information Centre label attached to it. These actions occur thanks to a concept known as content moderation. You’re…
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An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Being a Tech Bae (Part 2)
And so our story continues, the captivating tale of my foray into the world of technology. After the years of on-and-off attempts to learn Python, I have restarted learning programming. I am studying to become a front-end developer and my learning journey began with HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Having gained some level of mastery of…
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An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Becoming a Tech Bae (Part 1)
Spoiler alert! This is a guide. I recently started learning to become a Tech Bae. For the past seven years, give or take, I have been trying to learn software development (unsuccessfully, if I might add, LOL). Everything changed a couple of months ago when someone gave me genius advice which changed the game for…
Oyinkan Adebimpe 