This is really, really impressive

This is really important analysis of disinformation and generative AI. I like it because it confirms my personal view that technology is not so much the problem as people and that the moral panic about deep fakes etc is a distraction from understanding the reality of disinfo

📢 For those new followers and everyone interested in upskilling their AI literacy, we, at #JournalismAI , have compiled some trusted #resources over the years, to get you started.

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Media organisations meeting with Department for Culture, Media and Sport today to discuss the risks of genAI technologies to our information ecosystem. This is not theoretical.

55 national elections across the world next year.

Zero news media voices at the upcoming Global AI summit

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Sky News chief Jonathan Levy says while ensuring a news org has a ‘competitive spirit,’ news leaders can’t have ‘one mode anymore’. ‘People don’t respond well to that. You have to recognise people are coming in with different sensibilities.’

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We asked AI to make 100 images of 'an American person.' Every single image featured a flag. The results included 94 women, five men, and this rather horrifying masked individual

From our new feature: How AI reduces the world to stereotypes restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-…

Google’s new AI crawling option, revealed last week, seemed a way of giving some late control over how content ends up in AI output. Now it turns out the product that worries people the most and has the most scale - SGE in search - simply isn’t covered by it. This is absurd

A thought re X’s removal of headlines on links… Four and a half years ago, in response to older journalism being misrepresented as new coverage to mislead social media users, The Guardian became the first publisher to burn timestamps on Opengraph images…

How does DW as an international broadcaster approach generative AI and its integration into journalism? What are the challenges - and where do we see chances? A commentary by DW Editor in Chief M.Kasper-Claridge:
▶️ p.dw.com/p/4WZQh

'Personal sharing on LinkedIn is booming, people who use the platform say, because of tidal shifts in both social norms and the social-media marketplace.' Rob Price 🏔 Business Insider businessinsider.com/how-linkedin-g…

This is fantastic, on how LLMs are still best understood as really good predictive text rather than thinking machines.

GPT does well at solving specific problems that are common in its training data, but take the exact same complexity of problem and swap one number, and it fails

So here comes google-extended, a separate crawler for websites to opt in or out of their content being used for genAI purposes blog.google/technology/ai/…

This is really cool. Finding and creating appropriate depictions of technical subjects I've written on has always been a challenge.

🎉 Congratulations to the eight newsroom teams selected for the second edition of Leap, ICFJ’s news innovation lab! Over 12 weeks, experts will train participants on design thinking, detecting manipulated content, championing ethical AI use & more: icfj.org/news/global-ne…

It is finally here: #JournalismAI 's global survey on what newsrooms are doing with #AI . 🕺🏾

We hope this will be an insightful and helpful read for newsrooms, journalists, and mediamakers around the world.

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A call to action for newsrooms in Paul Cheung | 鄭文耀's latest column, from our AI working session at Online News Association with folks leading AI efforts across the industry.

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📣 New Research Alert! Polis@LSE published a new global survey of AI in the newsroom. The research was supported by Google News Initiative

Check out the full report here: journalismai.info/research/2023-…

🧵 Here are some of the key findings. Enjoy reading! 📖