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Flagged for Being Queer

USC ISI researchers uncover bias in content moderation, specifically, how LLMs misinterpret gender-nonconforming speech.

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USC ISI - October 30
Visit our NL seminar tomorrow!

Ziyi Liu is a second-year PhD student at USC. In this seminar, she'll discuss a novel framework to assess LLMs’ social intelligence by mapping their ability to understand and manage intentions in a game setting.

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USC ISI RetweetedEAAMO - October 29
Next up, a vital study on #contentmoderation bias affecting gender-queer voices. Researchers from @USC and @USC_ISI reveal how certain LLMs disproportionately flag posts by transgender and non-binary individuals as harmful, raising concerns about fairness in online discourse? pic.x.com/wAAInfJh6g
USC ISI - October 28
Counterspeech is a method to combat harmful online rhetoric by directly yet empathetically challenging it.? But a new study from USC ISI suggests that counterspeech is ineffective no matter how it’s delivered.
 
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Pursue transformational applied research while helping to invent a better and more secure future. Help research and develop new hardware solutions for problems of national importance.

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The Networking & Cybersecurity Division at ISI is looking for a Research Engineer II. Help develop technologies that tackle two high risk attack vectors for 5G communications.

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One of the first root name servers – which help translate human-friendly host names to numeric IP addresses – was set up at ISI. “B-root” is one of 13 in the world and a key piece of Internet infrastructure still operated by ISI to this day.
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