Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a “sovereignty” index praising Russia and criticizing the West.
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OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a “sovereignty” index praising Russia and criticizing the West.
We present Team Semiintelligencn's solution for the ACM RecSys 2026 TalkPlayData Challenge, addressing conversational music recommendation through a multi-modal and personalized conversational recommender system. Our submitted system employs a three-stage pipeline: (1) multi-modal retrieval constructing decay-weighted centroids across seven dense embedding spaces - track- and user-level CF-BPR, Qwen3 (metadata, lyrics, attributes), CLAP audio, and SigLIP visual - supplemented by BM25 lexical retrieval and an artist substring-match signal, all fused via weighted Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) with optimized signal weights; (2) lightweight reranking (history filtering, popularity smoothing, and catalog diversity penalization); and (3) persona-diversified response generation using GPT-4o-mini. Beyond this submitted configuration, we report development-time experiments with additional components - constrained LLM-guided artist injection, album continuation signals, XGBoost LambdaMART, and a superior GPT-4.1 response prompt - that were not deployed to Blind B due to cost and complexity constraints. We optimize RRF weights on a 500-session development split via differential evolution, improving MRR by +19.5%. On Blind A, we observe that unconstrained LLM-guided injection across 54 sessions causes catastrophic nDCG regression (-18.9%), while conservative injection on only 9 sessions yields the best observed Blind A nDCG - a finding we present as a Blind A observation warranting further validation. The submitted system achieves a Blind B composite score of 0.3213.
This paper presents new Cantonese ParGram resources and evaluates LLMs for knowledge-driven grammar engineering within a controlled experimental paradigm. Using Cantonese ParGram resources as gold standards, with corresponding English baselines, we investigate whether OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and GPT-5.4 can generate machine-processable grammars from sentences and target formal structures under systematically varied prompting conditions. GPT-5.4 outperformed gpt-oss-120b, while grammars generated from target formal structures generally outperformed those generated from sentences. Although both models could generate locally plausible phrase-structure rules, lexical entries, and templates, they often struggled to coordinate interacting formal constraints, especially in multi-construction settings. The results characterize both the capabilities and limitations of current LLMs for potential integration into AI-assisted expert workflows: LLMs may support intermediate stages of grammar development, but human linguistic expertise remains central to analysis, validation, and refinement. The study also contributes new Cantonese symbolic grammatical resources.
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