A new study led by @sherbold.bsky.social from our university is investigating who is liable when #AI is misused to create child sexual abuse material. The authors reach a clear conclusion: "Anyone who develops AI must implement clear protective mechanisms – both technical and legal."

Announcing the #ICML2026 policy for self-ranking in reviews! 1. Authors rank their submissions 2. Reviews are submitted 3. The "Isotonic Mechanism" is run on rankings and review scores 4. Large discrepancies are flagged to ACs and SAC CC @wjsu.bsky.social Post: blog.icml.cc/2026/01/12/i...

While the Grok-caused CSAM scandal is happening over on X, our work discussing the possible criminal liability of X (and others when publishing generative models) has been accepted the International Conference on AI Engineering. The preprint is already online: arxiv.org/abs/2601.03788

Fun Christmas party of our research group yesterday. Fortunately, we found the exit!

We have 4 open PhD positions in the Future of Software Engineering (FUSE) lab! Topics: - code review efficiency - predictive software testing - automated code refactoring - engineering productivity metrics (1/2)

Talente auf der Bühne, spannende Projekte, lebendiger internationaler Austausch und verborgene Talente: Rückblick auf die Forschungskommunikation 2025 u.a. mit @lingulist.de, @sherbold.bsky.social, @haeussler.bsky.social, @mgrani.bsky.social, @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social, @passaudpe.bsky.social:

“The whos, whats, and whys of issues related to personal data and data protection in open-source projects on GitHub” by Anne Hennig, Lukas Schulte, Steffen Herbold, Oksana Kulyk, and Peter Mayer will be published in #EMSE! It examines discussions on personal data and data protection on #GitHub. 1/2

🤖🎓 How good is #ChatGPT as a university correction assistant? Researchers from our university investigated this question – and were surprised by some of the results. The findings have been published in #ScientificReports @natureportfolio.nature.com Original study: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

MAMUT: A Novel Framework for Modifying Mathematical Formulas for the Generation of Specialized Da... Jonathan Drechsel, Anja Reusch, Steffen Herbold Action editor: Hongsheng Li https://openreview.net/forum?id=khODmRpQEx #embeddings #notation #representations

🚀 Shaping the future of 4D imaging How to study the hidden dynamics of materials that transform themselves? Our university is part of the new #MSCA Doctoral Network #XCELERATE, pioneering 4D X-ray tomography methods. Two fully funded doctoral positions are available at our university:

Sometimes reviewers still manage to surprise me. A reviewer suggested, we should do a field study for something were we argue that is criminal. We are now planning do address this and wondering if we the reviewer rather wants us to commit crimes or to become criminal investigators 🤨

Very interesting paper that shows that LLMs are good. But not good enough. I wish the following from the conclusion would have made it into the abstract:

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Just accepted at TMLR: We found evidence of copyright violations by LLMs even when we ask questions that were not part of the training. Indeed, we found that the amount of memorized content was independent from the questions being part of the training or not. openreview.net/forum?id=ddo...

This just in: Leading AI firm discovers confidence thresholds. More on this exciting development in news at 11. openai.com/index/why-la... (Honestly, OpenAI!?)

Scientific impact and achievement, redefined: Huge congrats to #fraunhofer IIS on winning an #emmy for their JPEG XS compression standard 🏆🎉 […]

re (I miss IRC) (Now I feel old)

Dear all, please enjoy your complementary "European Professor goes on Holiday" message. See you in September. Yours sincerely, A European Professor

Good news (for me!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5. Bad news (for everyone!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5. arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14921 hkotek.com/blog/gender-...

I wonder what my PhD students will think, once they discover that "someone" glued the three laws to the wall in the hallway. 🙃

Newton's Laws of Graduation, Part 2 - The Second Law

Newton's Laws of Graduation, Part 3 - The Third Law 😆

Success, a luxury problem, and its solution: 🎉 Our quiz is a huge success and incredibly popular on YouTube with now over 100,000 views. 😐 We cannot answer all the feedback and comments individually anymore. 😀 We write a follow up article to answer the most important questions.

It is official, our two long papers at #ACL2025 have now been published. Common work with Arne Rubehn (Concept Embeddings), and Frederic Blum and @sherbold.bsky.social (Automated Language Affiliation). aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

My debut as TV-Show moderator - now live on Youtube. We had a lot of fun with how the five professors answered questions on topics ranging from 90's music, counting peas, size of Asian countries, etc. The only drawback: it is only available in German. P.S. The humans won.

Wie schlägt sich KI gegen professorale Expertise? Die Quiz-Show unter Moderation von @sherbold.bsky.social ist nun in voller Länge online. Wer sich vorab selbst mit der KI messen möchte, kann dies per Online-Quiz tun: www.digital.uni-passau.de/beitraege/20... #KeepCALLM #5gegenKI

That was so much fun. I look forward to the video 😃

I'll just leave that quote here ...

Happy to share that we published MAMUT @tmlrorg.bsky.social. We defined multiple data augmentation approaches to get more diverse mathematical data and show this improves pre-training. Congrats to my student Jonathan Drechsel for his first publication! 🎉 www.fim.uni-passau.de/en/ai-engine...

Starting the weekend on a Friday at 4pm with an empty inbox feels kind of strange. Good, but strange.

How much energy is needed to generate an image? 🎨🧠⚡️ Up to 4.08 Wh — like charging your phone to 40%! In our new study we tested 17 models & 9,000+ runs. Other key finds: ⚡️ Model energy use varies up to 46x 📐 Resolution matters, prompts don't 🛠️ Quantization ≠ savings 📄 Preprint: lnkd.in/dKWWAETW

Können #LLMs einen neuen Zugang zum Recht eröffnen? Darüber spricht Brian Valerius, Professor für #KI im #Strafrecht, mit Rechtsanwalt Sven Galla, der KI bereits in der Praxis einsetzt. 📅 Donnerstag, 10. Juli, 18 Uhr 📍 Hörsaal 13 Mehr Infos: www.digital.uni-passau.de/generative-s... #KeepCALLM

The truly impressive thing about Zoom is that whenever they update the UI, it gets worse.

New pre-print: If you are wondering which models are good for non-code software engineering tasks, take a look at this work from my student Fabian Pena. Also: Look at it if you want to know how to use Bayesian stats for ranking models. arxiv.org/abs/2506.10833

Reviews so far this year: 11 journal papers, 8 conference papers, and 6 registered report protocols. And I already feel like I decline almost all incoming requests...

Wow, our ACL paper with @lingulist.de is selected as oral presentation at the ACL main conference - less than 10 percent of the accepted papers get this honor 🤯

❝Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.❞ arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

The big lawsuit from Disney and Co finally has arrived. This will be interesting: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/i...

Mehr Informationen sowie alle Termine der interdisziplinären Vortragsreihe im Überblick: www.digital.uni-passau.de/generative-s... #LLMs #KeepCALLM @sherbold.bsky.social @lingulist.de @mgrani.bsky.social

Wie leistungsfähig sind große #Sprachmodelle? In einer neuen #Ringvorlesung gehen Forschende verschiedener Disziplinen dieser Frage nach. Erster Termin: 📅 Donnerstag, 5. Juni, 18 Uhr 📍 Hörsaal 13 | IM Gebäude Mehr zum Thema des ersten Vortrags verrät Prof. Dr. Annette Hautli-Janisz im Video:

ICSE 2026 Research Track Second submission cycle (Mandatory) Abstract: July 11, 2025 Submission: July 18, 2025 bit.ly/3SoUPub

Four PhD positions opening at SERL Sweden related to AI4SE and SE4AI: - Software Maintenance: www.bth.se/eng/about-bt... SW Development: www.bth.se/eng/about-bt... Software Design and Architecture: www.bth.se/eng/about-bt... Verification and Validation: www.bth.se/eng/about-bt...

Somewhere, an overleaf admin relaxes. The NeuroIPS deadline has finally passed.

Waking up to an ACL accept is a good start into the day. 🎉Though I probably should not get used to that 😀

One more push: I am hiring 1-2 PhD students to research the use of LLMs to augment human-written test suites. Interested? Apply here: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha... Reach out if you have questions! Applications due May 15! #softwaretesting #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #LLM #AI #PHD

"I am hiring 1-2 PhD students at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden to explore the use of LLMs to augment human-written software test suites. This is a five-year position, fully funded by the Wallenberg Autonomous Systems, AI, and Software Program (WASP)." Gregory Gay

Oh no. For 2.5 years I did not receive MDPI-do-You-Want-to-do-a-special-issue spam. Now they discovered my new Email address 😩 Well, just one more predatory publisher to delete.

The check-ins on this trip are cursed! This time they cancelled my ticket somehow and needed to fix that. I guess I have to wait for the next @icseconf.bsky.social for a smooth check-in at the airport 🙃

Honored to receive the best tool paper award of the NLBSE! Congrats to Fabian Pena for this achievement with his first academic paper! 🎉

If you are @icseconf.bsky.social and always asked yourself if methods like LIME and SHAP actually explain how LM-based classifiers work, come to Room 208 at 3pm, where Lukas Schulte will present our journal-first paper published in EMSE. If you cannot make it, read it here: doi.org/10.1007/s106...