"They don't have any notion of the truth … it just generates the statistically most likely next word." @veredshwartz.bsky.social discusses #LLM hallucinations after #Grok claimed Mark Carney has never been Prime Minister via @cdnpress.bsky.social buff.ly/SHtisJ9 @cs.ubc.ca

I just published "AI Language Technologies are Powerful—But Not Without Limits" cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/ai-l... via @universitypress.cambridge.org

Do you have a profile on Goodreads? You can enter for a chance to win a free copy of "Lost in Automatic Translation". Please share! #bookgiveaway #freebook www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

✍️ Write a book review for Babel! Review opportunities: 📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U 📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving? 📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation 📧 Get in touch at [email protected]

The recent UBC interview with Dr. Vered Shwartz (@veredshwartz.bsky.social), Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, shares important reflections on how AI chatbots can influence users’ decisions and behaviour. 🤖💬 (1/7🧵)

🎙 In our new episode, we spoke with @veredshwartz.bsky.social (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia) and highlighted her book Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies. (1/7🧵)

It was such a pleasure talking to Jekaterina and Malikeh about cultural biases in AI. Thank you for hosting me!

I'm super excited to update that "Lost in Automatic Translation" is now available as an audiobook! 🔊📖 It's currently on Audible: www.audible.ca/pd/B0FXY8VQX5 Stay tuned (lostinautomatictranslation.com) for more retailers, including Amazon, iTunes, etc., and public libraries! 📚

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We’re excited to feature @veredshwartz.bsky.social , Asst Prof at @cs.ubc.ca, CIFAR AI Chair @vectorinstitute.ai, and author of lostinautomatictranslation.com, in the next @wiair.bsky.social episode.

People more influenced by advice from AI than fellow humans, UBC study finds

Theory of Mind can make LLMs better at dialogue: more strategic, goal-oriented, enabling long-horizon adaptation! In our new paper, we introduce ToMA, a dialogue lookahead training framework that enables the LLMs to generate mental states that are maximally useful for achieving dialogue goals.🧵👇

@veredshwartz.bsky.social author of ‘Lost in Automatic Translation’, explores the opportunities and pitfalls of language technologies, from automatic translation tools to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. 🤖 Read the full interview 🔗 https://cup.org/4n8ilt4

Outlook spell checker is suggesting that I write "I attached me slides" instead of "I attached my slides". #AI_fail

I just published Are we expecting too much of LLMs? An analysis of prompts in NLP papers medium.com/p/are-we-exp...

"Lost in Automatic Translation" is finally out! Get it here: lostinautomatictranslation.com

*SEM 2025 final call for ARR COMMITMENTS! Final chance to commit to *SEM 2025, co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou!! ARR COMMITMENT deadline is August 22, 2025. Give your strong-but-overlooked EMNLP paper the second chance it deserves! 😉 starsem2025.github.io/cfp #NLP #NLProc

Questions if Google Translate and ChatGPT will help us master foreign languages and better understand one another, or make language learning obsolete. Lost in Automatic Translation by @veredshwartz.bsky.social, Coming Soon cup.org/45lmrI2 #LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #AI #LLMs #ArtificalIntelligence

I'm not sure yet if I'll make it to #IJCAI2025 because of the planned Air Canada strike, but if you're attending, you can order my book with the IJCAI discount (30% off and free shipping) through mid-September: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Congratulations to Shruthi Chockkalingam, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Raymond Ng & @veredshwartz.bsky.social for receiving an Outstanding Paper Award at the Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) Workshop at the 2025 Association for Computational Linguistics Conference! #ACL2025

I just finished listening to the audiobook of "Empire of AI" by @karenhao.bsky.social (highly recommend!). The copyright statement in the credits explicitly mentions it's not allowed to use the book for training AI. I love it and will ask my producer to do the same 🙂

“My main concern at the moment is the widespread adoption, reliance and trust in LLMs, despite a very serious technical limitation — the hallucination problem.” @isaacphannay.bsky.social interviews "Lost in Automatic Translation" author @veredshwartz.bsky.social.

I'm using ACX to produce an audiobook (my publisher only does print and ebooks). I posted a text sample for narrators to audition. 80% of the auditions I got were from fake, AI narrators. 1/4

I just published "This book will not be used to train LLMs": lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book-will-not-be-used-to-train-llms-1

Unexpected events grab human attention & push AI models beyond their training data. 🤔 How well do VLMs reason about these critical, novel scenarios? 🦢 Introducing Black Swan @ #CVPR2025 (Poster: Sun 10:30am #304) Co-lead: @sahithya.bsky.social w/ @veredshwartz.bsky.social 🔗 blackswan.cs.ubc.ca

Starting in a few minutes - we have an exciting line up of talks, posters, and a panel! Join us at room 104E. 🌍 #CVPR2025

🗓️ Save the date! It's official: The VLMs4All Workshop at #CVPR2025 will be held on June 12th! Get ready for a full day of speakers, posters, and a panel discussion on making VLMs more geo-diverse and culturally aware 🌐 Check out the schedule below!

Simple example for how errors can creep into our papers through LLM use: I had a statistic for 2020. I googled about the same statistic for 2023. AI overview tells me the statistic for 2023 and provides a link to support the claim. The link is to a 2023 article citing the 2020 statistic.

*SEM 2025: Direct submissions deadline is now EXTENDED to June 13, 2025! *SEM will be co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou, China. It will be a hybrid event, virtual attendance possible (more info on this will be posted later). Full CFP: starsem2025.github.io/cfp #NLP #NLProc

I guess that now that I have 1% of my Twitter followers follow me here 😅, I should announce it here too for those of you no longer checking Twitter: my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation" is coming out this July: lostinautomatictranslation.com. I'm very excited to share it with you!

*SEM 2025 final call for DIRECT SUBMISSIONS! starsem2025.github.io/cfp Direct submissions are due next week on May 30, 2025. We also accept papers via ARR commitment, due on August 22, 2025. Give your strong-but-overlooked ACL paper the second chance it deserves! 😉 #NLProc #NLP