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Andrew DeckJuly 23, 2024

Why “Sorry, I don’t know” is sometimes the best answer: The Washington Post’s technology chief on its first AI chatbot

“For Google, that might be failure mode…but for us, that is success,” says the Post’s Vineet Khosla

Andrew DeckJuly 16, 2024

Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract

Ziff Davis can’t lay off workers or decrease their salary due to generative AI, according to the tentative contract.

Sachita NishalJuly 11, 2024

Making sense of science: Using LLMs to help reporters understand complex research

Can AI models save reporters time in figuring out an unfamiliar field’s jargon?

Andrew DeckJune 27, 2024

ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners’ biggest investigations

Nieman Lab’s tests show ChatGPT is directing users to broken URLs for at least 10 publications with OpenAI licensing deals.

People don’t trust the news media to use generative AI responsibly, RISJ finds

Neel DhaneshaJune 3, 2024

What’s in a byline? For Hoodline’s AI-generated local news, everything — and nothing

None of the AI writers seems to have a specific beat, except possibly for what can be best described as “police exploits,” which they all cover with gusto.

Rasmus Kleis NielsenMay 23, 2024

How uncritical news coverage feeds the AI hype machine

“The coverage tends to be led by industry sources and often takes claims about what the technology can and can’t do, and might be able to do in the future, at face value in ways that contribute to the hype cycle.”

Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gather to greet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a roadshow in Varanasi, India, Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar)

Andrew DeckMay 22, 2024

Indian journalists are on the frontline in the fight against election deepfakes

The ongoing general election is a pressure test for how to report on political voice clones and video spoofs.

Colin Lecher, The MarkupMay 13, 2024

This journalism professor made a NYC chatbot in minutes. It actually worked.

“The step that we need to make as a society is moving from, ‘This came from a machine, it must be correct,’ to, if I’m talking to a friend of mine who says something crazy, ‘I need to double check that, I need to cross reference it to make sure that it is accurate.'”

Andrew DeckMay 9, 2024

For the first time, two Pulitzer winners disclosed using AI in their reporting

Awarded investigative stories are increasingly relying on machine learning, whether covering Chicago police negligence or Israeli weapons in Gaza

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