Dr. Casey Fiesler

information science prof at university of colorado boulder, social computing / tech ethics researcher, exceptionally minuscule tiktok star, fangirl / geek, she/her

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2024-09-18 13:59:15

I'm looking for/into work on older adults and AI literacy, in case folks know who is working in that area! It feels like something that may have gotten more recent attention and so is happening but not published yet. :)

2024-09-17 23:18:27

hey professor friends!
In your departments, do current graduate students ever help with graduate admissions? Does this raise concerns about applicant privacy?

2024-08-26 20:25:35

What tech ethics or policy books published in the past 2 years or so should I be adding to the list of books the students in my class can write a book review for?

2024-08-18 13:51:59

After hearing about Eric Schmidt's guest lecture in an AI class, I looked up the transcript, and yes he really did say that if a Silicon Valley entrepreneur were to "illegally steal everybody's music" they would just "hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up." Then I was curious and looked up the syllabus for the course and based on the topic schedule, the most explicit ethics topic seemed to be "opportunities and risks" for which the guest speaker was... Eric Schmidt. 😕

2024-07-03 18:21:53

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Specific example as a thought experiment: Does the fall of Chevron mean that e.g. in a copyright lawsuit, a judge could ignore the Copyright Office's guidance on human authorship and just decide that a 100% AI generated work is totally copyrightable based on their interpretation of the law?

2024-07-03 17:30:07

Law peeps, thoughts on how the fall of Chevron will impact IP? The USPTO didn’t get much deference on a lot of things already, right?

2024-06-24 14:45:39

If you think you saw me in an ad: yes, that was me. You were not hallucinating. I feel a bit awkward about the whole thing which is why I haven’t talked about it but I promise you that a gigantic electronics company did not steal my content. :) Also relatedly if you’re in the US you might spot me on local news soon.

2024-06-19 21:55:34

You would not BELIEVE the number of academia-related AI startups. I know this because I think every single one of them is emailing me to ask if I’ll do ads for them on TikTok or YouTube lol.

2024-06-14 21:05:57

okay, my favorite piece of feedback on my novel is that THREE OUT OF THREE computer scientists who have read it all caught the same mistake I made, which was making a comment about "all the semi colons" in the context of Python
I know, I know...

2024-06-05 19:41:43

In the continuing "other people think my email is their email" saga, after receiving the dozenth or so email from a vet in Pennsylvania about someone else's dog, I clicked on "unsubscribe" and it automatically just LOGGED ME INTO THIS PERSON'S ACCOUNT, showing me all of their account information, including e.g. address and phone number. All I could think of to do to "unsubscribe" was change their email address to idontknowmyownemail.

2024-06-05 19:41:43

2024-05-21 12:22:44

re: Scarlett Johansson I think it's interesting that Mira Murati told NPR that they didn't pattern the ChatGPT voice off of anyone and that she doesn't even know what Johansson's voice sounds like. Because that could totally be true.
Anyone else think Sam Altman might have just asked for input into voice casting, and (after Johansson turned them down) chose the actress whose voice sounded most like hers? Which, you know... illegal? No. Creepy? Yes.

2024-05-20 16:31:33

I couldn't stop thinking about the Meta AI chatbot that made up a human experience in a parenting Facebook group - so I wrote about why online communities are for people, not chatbots. Decades of social computing research tells us that information seeking in online communities is as much about shared experiences and human connection as it is about getting an answer. Maybe generative AI shouldn't be *everywhere* doing *everything*. https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473

2023-12-11 20:19:14

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@npub1qag…9gyn Yeah frankly I don’t trust human judgment either.

2023-11-09 13:48:42

A TikTok about Amazon's new $9/month medical service for Prime members has AMAZING comments (in a "laughing through your tears about the U.S. healthcare system" kind of way). A selection:
"I delayed my CPR by 3 days and got a $1 digital credit, can't wait to use it!"
"Got my liver on prime day. Even bought 'used, like new' and saved a bunch."
"I just dropped off my bloodwork at Kohl's."
"Baby came nine months early with same day delivery!"

2023-08-16 21:14:38

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@npub1ulm…hweg just as hard to find though. google scholar always links to hein online. I end up having to google the title anyway, and often SSRN will come up but law review websites almost never do.

2023-08-16 14:04:06

Academics, I beg you. Please put copies of your published papers on your website, arxiv, whatever. Not only because it's great for the broader world beyond academia (who can't get behind paywalls at all) but it just took me 15 minutes to try to figure out how to log in to some particular database to get a copy of a paper. I don't even like the 3 minutes it takes to log into the ACM DL versus copying a title into google. Follow copyright rules but you can almost always post SOMETHING somewhere.

2023-08-13 16:34:33

This article on is an excellent deep dive on known AI harms, via profiles of women who should have been listened to long before everyone started talking about ChatGPT. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/

2023-08-04 13:50:58

As I think I've mentioned already, I'm considering starting a podcast this year. I'm well into the brainstorming stage, but I have two questions that I think if some people answered might help that stage!
(1) If you heard that I had a podcast, what would your expectation be re: what it would be about/like?
(2) What are some podcasts you like that are similar to what you might expect?
No promises yet, just curiosity and brainstorming. :)

2023-03-31 20:46:39

Would you miss Twitter if it were gone? What would you say at Twitter’s funeral?
We are researchers at University of Colorado Boulder conducting a survey about how people think about the role of Twitter in their lives, given recent changes to the platform. If you are at least 18 years old and a current or former user of Twitter, we’d love to hear from you! (And feel free to share!) https://www.internetruleslab.com/twitter-eulogy-project