Ruth Janal
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Ruth Janal
@recht_tech
law professor, dilettante surfer, interested in connections of all sorts

The DSA book visuals are in. One thing is clear. This will look extremely well on your bookshelf. The illustration was prepared by a young Italian artist, Marco Melgrati. We finally also have the release date: August 2024.








We dub this apparent contradiction the amplification paradox: - "if the recommendation algorithm favors extreme content, why is it not driving its consumption?" And provide an answer to it: - "Because these audits do not consider how people actually use recommender systems."

New preprint 🚨 We show that recommender system audits are of limited utility in determining the prevalence of phenomena like radicalization, rabbit holes, etc., if they do not model how users interact with algorithms (which no one really does!) 📰: arxiv.org/abs/2302.11225












