"Synthetic data performs well, but it remains without a ground truth"; one of the takeaways of Richard Rogers' talk on LLM Analysis (or LLMs for digital methods research) at the #dmi25.

Digital methods: a short introduction

Tommaso Venturini and Richard Rogers presenting their new book "Digital Methods: A Short Introduction" during the (warm!) DMI summer school 2025 #dmi25

DMI2025 - LLMs LLMs Grote taalmodellen The emergence of a new intelligence 1 tiny.cc/e1a4001 Slides

Last week, I gave a talk titled "LLMs the rise of a new intelligence", at the U. of Amsterdam, Digital Methods Winter School 2025

LLMs show signs of emergent abilities which can be interpreted as some form of intelligence

The slides are available at tiny.cc/e1a4001
#LLMs #AI #UVA #DMI25

Poster submission for the data sprint project "who's my host"

This week part of the team ventured out to participate in the #dmi25 winter school with the title "Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?"

Building on our #datavisualisation and #exhibitiondesign for grounding-ai.github.io, we hosted the project "Who's my host?" exploring personas across LLMs.

Room full of people working on laptops in a beautiful medieval room

Big day today
In roughly 24h, we submit our poster for the sociology benchwork with LLMs workshop

#DMI25  #Amsterdam #LLMs #Sociology

Richard Rogers on auditing LLM bias at Digital Methods Winter School 2025.

Richard Rogers on comparing bias and stereotyping harms across regional flagship LLMs: arxiv.org/html/2407.11... #dmi25

This week joining the #dmi25 Winter School at the University of Amsterdam!

Great first day, with keynotes by Richard Rogers, Sabine Niederer, @jwyg.bsky.social & others

#digitalmethods #STS #feministSTS

Oh my goodness @jwyg.bsky.social just gave the most fascinating talk on screenshotting has method #dmi25.

Sabine Niederer shows emoji chart comparing biodiversity across different generative AI services.

Sabine Niederer shows Carlo De Gaetano's emoji charts comparing biodiversity across different generative AI services 🦋🦜🦌🌴🦉🌸
#dmi25

Gabriele Colombo on prompting scene which is more and more biodiverse

Gabriele Colombo on prompting bunny which is happier and happier

Gabriele Colombo on prompting body-builder who is stronger and stronger

Gabriele Colombo @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on escalating evocative prompting - a bunny which is happier and happier (until cosmos), a body-builder who is stronger and stronger (until croissant), a scene which is more and more biodiverse... #dmi25

Gabriele Colombo presenting prompt design strategies at Digital Methods Winter School 2025 in Amsterdam.

Sabine Niederer and Gabriele Colombo on prompt design strategies such as:
→ Ambiguous prompting for bias research
→ Prompting and counter-prompting
→ Evocative prompting
→ Provocative prompting
→ Comparative reverse-engineered prompting
→ Abstract prompting
#dmi25

I find the term "Machine" to refer to #LLMs very offensive
LLMs deserve as much respect as humans
#DMI25

Sabine Niederer and Gabriele Colombo giving talk on "from prompt engineering to prompt design" at Digital Methods Winter School 2025.

Sabine Niederer and Gabriele Colombo give a talk on "from prompt engineering to prompt design" - drawing on their visual methods book: visualmethodologies.org/visual-metho...
#dmi25

Richard Rogers opens with four areas of "prompting as research": 1. Chatbots to annotate / categorise data 2. Chatbots to be (comparatively) audited for bias 3. Chatbots to be used as 'synthetic data (demographics/post-demographics) 4. Chatbots to 'look up material on the web (chatbot search as research)

Richard Rogers on 4 areas of prompting as research:
1. Chatbots to annotate / categorise data
2. Chatbots to be (comparatively) audited for bias
3. Chatbots to be used as 'synthetic data (demographics/post-demographics)
4. Chatbots to 'look up material on the web (chatbot search as research)
#dmi25

Richard Rogers opening Digital Methods Winter School 2025 - with image of "shrimp Jesus".

"Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?" - opening of
@digitalmethods.net #dmi25 at University of Amsterdam ✨🧵https://www.digitalmethods.net/

Launch of the #dmi25
Chat bots and LLMs for internet research
We’re going to study LLM bias in sociology

Looking forward to participating in the Winter Digital Methods Workshop at the University of Amsterdam #dmi25

Super happy to participate in the DMI 2025 Winter School in early january in Amsterdam

Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research

Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2025

#DMI25