David Gillis
@davegillis
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Design @Meta, where I work on product safety, integrity, support, social impact and growth. Previously @teehanlax.
California
Joined April 2007
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Okay, some actual nightmare fuel there. We have no idea what goes on inside GPT4, but it is *probably* not waking up. And if the real shoggoth inside awoke, it might not speak. But still, *if* GPT4 woke up, it might wrongly guess it was a person trapped inside a computer.
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“Unwinding ourselves from our neighbors’ deprivation and refusing to live as enemies of the poor will require us to pay a price. It’s the price of our restored humanity and renewed country.”
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem.
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RT @colin_fraser: Some tips for writing your "I had a conversation with an LLM bot and it spooked me" story, if you simply must. 1. You di….
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RT @vishwanathsarng: How do you measure how much violating content is seen on a social media platform? Today, we published a detailed blog….
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A core principle of Meta is to keep people safe on our platforms. Doing so encourages welcoming experiences and healthy communities. To…
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. I so appreciate this, and am deeply grateful to be part of an amazing community of builders who strived every day to make our products better, more valuable, more sound. Any company would be lucky to hire these folks.
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I’ll forever be a fan of all my colleagues and friends at Meta, many of whom were impacted by the layoffs this week 💔 The scrutiny our products (rightly) face is real and immense, but so is the level of care, craft, and thoughtfulness everyone pours into our work here.
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Ok Vish, you get a retweet from me for this.
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Excited to see BW making progress!.
Context on Tweets — by the people, for the people — is coming to everyone in the US. It’s open, transparent, and we’ve consistently seen notes be found helpful and informative even by people who often disagree.
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RT @alexleavitt: I'm very excited to announce today that:.My team at Meta is once again providing $1,000,000 to social scientists for new r….
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In this request for proposals (RFP), Meta is offering awards to global social science researchers interested in exploring integrity issues related to social communication technologies.
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RT @VarshPrakash: Finally, a climate bill has passed the Senate. This isn't the bill my generation deserves but it is the one we can get.….
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Dear Members of Congress, Young people showed up to vote in record numbers in 2018 and 2020, putting many of you in the seats you occupy today. When we registered our friends, mobilized our communi...
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RT @colin_fraser: What’s annoying about the sentient ai conversation is the utter credulity that the idea of sentient LLMs is treated with.….
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I’ve sorta felt that overly technocratic solutions to problems like misinfo were rooted in overly techno-deterministic frames. This essay hypothesizes an even deeper motivated reasoning that I think is good for folks in our industry to wrestle with.
nymag.com
Why the swift death of the White House’s disinformation board is probably a good thing.
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Positive step forward: Meta's ads transparency programs are expanding to include targeting data.
Today we’re excited to announce that we are bringing targeting transparency to social issue, electoral and political ads through both our Ad Library, and for academics in the Facebook Open Research & Transparency environment. More details in our blog: .
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My daughter is doing a project on Iceland and noted that the city names look sus, like someone just mashed the keyboard — @iamharaldur is this true.
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