Seminar: "When Science Goes Viral: Informal Online Debate, Disinformation, and the Role of AI"

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Titre : When Science Goes Viral: Informal Online Debate, Disinformation, and the Role of AI

par   Konstantin Todorov (LIRMM, Université de Montpellier)

Résumé :  Scientific claims and informal discussions about science-related issues have proliferated across online platforms, where they are increasingly mobilized within manipulative narratives and disinformation campaigns. How, why, and when do people invoke science in online debates; what intended or unintended effects do these practices produce? In this talk, I consider these questions through the lens of how scientific discourse is used—or instrumentalized—to legitimize misleading information and to insert potentially harmful narratives in social media. I then explore how artificial intelligence, and in particular transformer-based language models, can contribute to identifying and countering such dynamics, rather than amplifying them. I conclude by turning to the role of emotions and affective language in scientific disinformation, and by discussing the challenges that emotionally charged discourse poses for current state-of-the-art models.

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• Sorbonne Université
• 4 place Jussieu
• Paris, Ile-de-France
• France 75005
• Building: LIP6
• Room Number: 105, couloir 25-26, 1er étage

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