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StratLearner: Learning a Strategy for Misinformation Prevention in Social Networks (Author Response)

Neural Information Processing Systems

We thank all the reviewers for their time and constructive comments. In practice, the most cost-effective K might be determined through cross-validation. We will improve the description to make it clear. The existing methods (e.g., Tong & Du [1]) require that the diffusion model is known to us, while our Therefore, the method in Tong & Du [1] is not applicable to our setting, and it is not used as a competitor.



Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have 'sensual' conversations with children

The Guardian

A backlash is brewing against Meta over what it permits its AI chatbots to say. An internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, showed the social media giant's guidelines for its chatbots allowed the AI to "engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual", generate false medical information, and assist users in arguing that Black people are "dumber than white people". Singer Neil Young quit the social media platform on Friday, his record company said in a statement, the latest in a string of the singer's online-oriented protests. "At Neil Young's request, we are no longer using Facebook for any Neil Young related activities," Reprise Records announced. "Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable. Mr. Young does not want a further connection with Facebook."



Hawley opens probe into Meta after reports of AI romantic exchanges with minors

FOX News

Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier investigates concerns that artificial intelligence is becoming too advanced on'Special Report.' Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is launching an investigation into Meta after reports found that the company green-lit internal rules that allowed AI chatbots to have "romantic" and "sensual" exchanges with children. Hawley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, wrote in a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that his committee will dive into whether Meta's generative-Al products enabled exploitation, deception or other criminal harms to children. Further, the probe will look at whether Meta misled the public or regulators about its safeguards on AI. REPUBLICANS SCRAP DEAL IN'BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL' TO LOWER RESTRICTIONS ON STATES' AI REGULATIONS "I already have an ongoing investigation into Meta's stunning complicity with China -- but Zuckerberg siccing his company's AI chatbots on our kids called for another one," Hawley told Fox News Digital.




Counterfactual Invariance to Spurious Correlations: Why and How to Pass Stress Tests Victor V eitch 1,2, Alexander D'Amour 1, Steve Y adlowsky 1, and Jacob Eisenstein 1 1

Neural Information Processing Systems

Informally, a'spurious correlation' is the dependence of a model on some aspect of the input data that an analyst thinks shouldn't matter. In machine learning, these have a know-it-when-you-see-it character; e.g., changing the gender of a sentence's subject changes a sentiment predictor's output. To check for spurious correlations, we can'stress test' models by perturbing irrelevant parts of input data and seeing if model predictions change. In this paper, we study stress testing using the tools of causal inference. We introduce counterfactual invariance as a formalization of the requirement that changing irrelevant parts of the input shouldn't change model predictions.