Nicolas Kayser-Bril
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Nicolas is a French-German journalist. He pioneered data-driven journalism in Europe, regularly speaks at international conferences, and taught journalism at several journalism schools in France, Switzerland and Russia. As a self-educated developer, he created interactive, data-driven applications for Le Monde. He built the data journalism team at OWNI and co-founded and managed Journalism++ from 2011 to 2017. Nicolas was one of the main authors of the Datajournalism Handbook.
Articles for AlgoritmWatch
How not to: We failed at analyzing public discourse on AI with ChatGPT
The year we waited for action: 2023 in review
Some image generators produce more problematic stereotypes than others, but all fail at diversity
AlgorithmWatch welcomes first fellows in algorithmic accountability reporting
The year automated systems might have been regulated: 2022 in review
Wolt: Couriers’ feelings don’t always match the transparency report
Algorithmic elections: How automated systems quietly disenfranchise voters
Mastodon could make the public sphere less toxic, but not for all
The fediverse is growing, but power imbalances might stay
How researchers are upping their game to audit recommender systems
AlgorithmWatch is offering 5 fellowships in algorithmic accountability reporting
Meta is sued for abetting fraud, and they don’t want you to know about it
Face recognition data set of trans people still available online years after it was supposedly taken down
A European newsroom to investigate automated systems
The year that was not saved by automated systems – 2021 in review
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European Council and Commission in agreement to narrow the scope of the AI Act
Facebook goes after the creator of InstaPy, a tool that automates Instagram likes
National parks near Marseilles deploy automated, live video surveillance against poachers
An English police force created its own ethics committee and it’s totally not ethics washing, they say.
YouTube cleaned its ‘news’ section… with content from Axel Springer
Instagram algorithm: Süddeutsche publishes results of data analysis
LinkedIn automatically rates “out-of-country” candidates as “not fit” in job applications
