The future of FOSS, SWE and Technical Education

Tarunima spoke on a panel on the future of FOSS, SWE and Technical Education

What can we do about open weight models enabling non consensual intimate imagery

Tarunima gave a talk at India FOSS on technical interventions to prevent open weight models from enabling NCSI

Uli Slur Annotation Workshop

We invited a select group of experts to annotate slur words and contribute to our slur list dataset. They provided context on meaning, targeted identities, and whether a slur word has been reclaimed or remains in harmful use.

Uli Community Homepage Launch

This dashboard should be useful to annotators and researchers looking to contribute or use datasets for abuse. It can also be used by Trust and Safety teams at platforms to expand their content moderation capabilities.

Needs Assessment Interviews with Gender Rights Organisations

We spoke to gender rights orgs to understand the challenges they face within the tech digital landscape to formulate programs to support GROs with bespoke tech tools, cybersecurity and data ethics

Safety Data Work in India: Quality and Worker Well-being

Tattle was invited to a workshop hosted by Digital Futures Lab and Microsoft Research India in Bengaluru, where multiple stakeholders engaged with safety data work gathered to discuss how to improve working conditions and compensation for gig workers annotating safety data.

The cost of entry: Online gender-based violence in India's gaming spaces

The release focuses on making contribution workshops easier while expanding the Uli dataset.

Uli Slur Annotation Workshop

Baarish conducted the workshop with researchers, linguistic experts and scholars to add to the uli dataset. We added Assamese and Marathi language data to the Uli slur list.

Uli Workshop on Denormalising Online Harms at a government school in Delhi

Poorvi conducted the Uli workshop with students of a government school in Delhi where an important insight emerged from young students' interactions with online gaming.

Part II of the Workshop on TFGBV and Tattle’s work on it with YP Foundation

In the second part of the workshop, we discussed the processes to combat TFGBV, shared helpful resources that the organisation can benefit from and ideated on ways in which TFGBV can be tackled.

Part I of the Workshop on TFGBV and Tattle’s work on it with YP Foundation

Tarunima and Poorvi conducted a two-hour online workshop with the team of YP Foundation discussing the various forms of TFGBV, how it manifests in the Indian context and how we at Tattle navigate it by contextualising online harms.

Uli Workshop on Denormalising Online Harms at Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Coimbatore

Denny and Poorvi conducted 10 workshops with 360 students in total across various departments including psychology, visual communication, Tamil Creative Writing among others at the Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Coimbatore

Comments on the draft deepfake regulation guidelines

We submitted comments on the recently proposed amendment to the intermediary rules, requiring labelling of artificially generated content.

Uli Workshop at Bahu-Bhasha Conference

Kaustubha and Denny conducted an Uli workshop at a conference called Bahu Bhasa, hosted by IIITH

Tattle at the IT4Change–Antara Roundtable on Gender Equality

Kaustubha attended a roundtable hosted by IT4Change and Antara Advisory, “Enabling Empowerment in Digital Times: What Next for Gender Equality?” on reimagining gender equality.

Workshop with Sajhe Sapne

Saurav conducted a workshop with the students at Sajhe Sapne on online harms in India discussing how students navigated these situations, and what form of support they were looking for.

An Offer One Can’t Refuse

Released a data annotation game, ‘An offer one can’t refuse’ on the Uli website.

Roundtable Discussion on Online Safety of Women in India

Attended a closed-door roundtable discussion on “Online Safety of Women: Managing Risks of technology-facilitated gender based violence and examining the issue of online obscenity” organised by the Quantum Hub (TQH).

Mapping Data Work

Tattle partnered on a conference with the University of Amsterdam and Aapti Institute, where participants explored ‘data work’ and the hidden costs associated with the development of datasets and AI systems.

Uli Workshop at Kalindi College

Saurav and Kaustubha conducted a workshop at Kalindi College on social media harms.

Uli 0.2.0 Release

We released Uli Community – users can now sign up and view crowdsourced contributions from the entire community and download approved community contributions to their own machines.

Digital Citizen Summit: Lightning Talk on Uli

Kaustubha delivered a lightning talk on Uli’s dataset process.

Module on OGBV: School of Campaigners

We created an online module as a Knowledge Partner for the School of Campaigners, a joint initiative of Access Polity (NETRI) & Apolitical Foundation, focused on OGBV and its impact on women politicians. We conducted an online session to close the module and invited participants to take part in a crowdsourcing session, and we received slur word contributions in Filipino.

AI Hackathon with Meta Llama

We built a content moderation model to detect coded speech.

Uli was featured on Github Open Source Friday

Denny and Kaustubha were interviewed by Andrea from Github for their weekly show "Open Source Friday". We got to share how Uli came about, our plans for it in the future, and our take on interdisciplinary work in tech.

DAU Won at Global Fact 2024

The Deepfakes Analysis Unit, that Tattle is the technical partner to, was awarded the most innovative collaborative award.

Outstanding Paper Award for Uli!

Uli received global recognition for its unique approach to annotation. The academic write-up that explains this process received the Outstanding Paper Award at the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms, held at the NAACL 2024

Uli is a DPG now

We are thrilled to be counted as a Digital Public Good alongside many other incredible opensource projects working to achieve the SDGs.

Uli slur list used by IFF

Uli's slur list was used by IFF to identify real examples of gendered hate speech content in English and Hindi on Youtube and Koo

Shared Task on Gendered Abuse Detection in Indic Languages at ICON

A shared task based on the Uli Dataset to build NLP systems that detect online gender-based violence

Design Thinking Session on Digitally Manipulated Media

We published a work in progress open dataset of Manipulated Media items that spread on social media. We also published a strategy document on ways of mitigating harms by DMM

Uli UX Improvements and Security Updates

Community Participation in Hacktoberfest

We improved our documentation and secured 3 community merged PRs with hacktoberfest contributors in Uli

DPG Open Source Community Manager Programme

Uli took part in GitHub's efforts to popularise contributions to tech projects that work for the social good

A Community-based Tool to Block Hateful Content on Social Media

Uli featured by Mozilla Foundation

Putting hate speech on mute: An Indian project helps social media users filter out abuse to feel safe online

Uli featured by DW Akademie

Tattle's Induction into the Data Futures Lab Cohort

Uli project being supported by Mozilla to develop crowdsourced datasets for the public good

Initiating Community Outreach for Uli

Winning Feminist ki Batti Jalao Grant

Uli (OGBV Plugin) Public Launch

Opened the OGBV plugin to broader public

Data Collection and Management at Tattle

Conference for Truth and Trust Online