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It’s the fourth most popular website in the world, but our new study shows toxic commentary can still thrive on Wikipedia. There’s a lot at stake if too many editors are driven away.
Search engines are expected to increasingly incorporate generative AI.
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Search engines run by generative AI could fundamentally change the online ecosystem.
Thinking of ChatGPT as a glider you pilot can help you use it more effectively.
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ChatGPT can be very useful – if you shift how you view it. The first step is to stop thinking of it as a chatty search engine.
Approach all information with some initial skepticism.
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Generative AIs may make up information they serve you, meaning they may potentially spread science misinformation. Here’s how to check the accuracy of what you read in an AI-enhanced media landscape.
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If people rely on ChatGPT or Google for complex medical questions, they could come unstuck.
Google’s dominance in search is undisputed, but could it come under fire?
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Could Google’s undisputed dominance as a search engine come under threat from AI?
ChatGPT is better used for playacting than playing at finding facts.
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ChatGPT and other AI chatbots seem remarkably good at conversations. But you can’t believe anything they say. Sometimes, though, reality isn’t the point.
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New research highlights the problem of algorithmically embodied emissions.
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There are around 201 known factors on which a website is analysed and ranked by Google’s algorithms.
Social technologies perpetuate a single idea of what constitutes a pregnancy.
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New research shows technologies like pregnancy apps do not account for pregnancy loss 72% of the time, causing real harm to users.
People tend to view social media posts more favorably when more people have liked, commented on or shared them, regardless of the quality of the posts.
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You have evolved to tap into the wisdom of the crowds. But on social media your cognitive biases can lead you astray.
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More advertising and “smarter” search algorithms are changing how Googling works.
Scholars can be more reliable than search engines.
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Unlike scholars, Google’s search engine can’t automatically decide which sources are the most important, most accurate or most significant.
To click or not to click?
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News organisations are wracking their brains on how to get people to their sites.
Search engines often serve up a distorting blend of information and misinformation.
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Search engines, like social media algorithms, get you to click on links by learning what other people click on. Enticing misinformation often comes out on top.
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There are other ways to search the web without Google, and some options help protect your privacy while another is good for the planet.
“Apple it” just doesn’t have the same ring…
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Will Apple’s search engine have the same ill fate as Microsoft’s Bing?
Apple devices drive over half of all Google search traffic.
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Google pays Apple to make its search engine the default on its devices, but the iPhone maker actually has more market power in the relationship.
Google’s homepage on Feb. 1, 2019, celebrated Sojourner Truth. But its algorithms do not reflect the same inclusive approach.
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Google’s algorithms reflect bias against members of racialized and gendered groups.
How does searching affect voting?
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Social media sites aren’t the only online systems that can secretly influence people’s votes. Search engines can too and may be even more successful – and undetectable.