This right here!! Using AI to make investigations MORE human and participatory … “We must make it our business to bring people to the future with us,” Reynolds-Tyler said of AI adoption in investigative reporting. tru_trill

“We didn’t use AI to replace what would’ve otherwise been done manually. We used AI precisely because it was the type of task that would’ve taken so long to do manually that [it would distract from] other investigative work.” niemanlab.org/2024/05/for-th…

'We don’t come in when there’s something crazy happening and then leave when it’s over. This is just what we do all the time.'

How student journos have reported relentless breaking news abt campus protests with empathy, navigated anonymity, + more:

niemanlab.org/2024/05/were-t…

I talked to Andrew Deck about our use of object detection in our story about Israel's use of 2k lb bombs in areas marked safe for Gaza's civlians. He also delineates Invisible Institute/City Bureau's fascinating leveraging of community knowledge to train an AI tool:
niemanlab.org/2024/05/for-th…

SCOOP: An OpenAI pitch deck obtained by ADWEEK reveals the details of its Preferred Publisher Program.

The AI firm has courted publishers, like Dotdash Meredith, to partner by promising payment and greater visibility in search results.

For @ADWEEK: adweek.com/media/openai-p…

I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder...

For Futurism // futurism.com/advon-ai-conte…

For years platforms have used 230 to protect themselves from legal liability for user generated content. Now, new lawsuit from Knight First Amendment Institute says the law has another application: letting users control their feeds.

WIRED

wired.com/story/meta-sec…

I've been blown away by the incredible response to the Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series, our program to train 1,000 journalists on AI reporting. Already hundreds of signups & counting.

Thank you to Nieman Lab for highlighting our mission & work! 1/
niemanlab.org/2024/05/pulitz…

Thank you Andrew Deck Nieman Lab for featuring the AI Spotlight Series & our goal to spread far and wide the skills journos need to do AI accountability reporting niemanlab.org/2024/05/pulitz… Karen Hao Lam Thuy Vo Gabriel Geiger Gideon Lichfield 🇺🇦🌻 Tom Simonite ✨

not surprising that media aggregator websites have fully embraced ai generated visuals

$50 million: That's about how much Indian politicians are spending on AI campaigning material these elections! Fahad Shah has the details in this Rest of World story restofworld.org/2024/india-ele…

Following our investigation on how faulty govt algorithms denied food to hundreds of thousands of poor and declared living people as dead in India, Amnesty Tech today has released a technical report on the audit of one of the algorithmic systems (1). amnesty.org/en/latest/rese…

Financial Times is the latest major news publisher to ink a licensing deal with OpenAI.

OpenAI confirmed to Nieman Lab the deal includes access to the FT’s story archive, which can be used to train ChatGPT's underlying models.
More here: niemanlab.org/2024/04/the-fi…

💥🧑‍💻We are so excited to announce the 25 journalists, media leaders, and academics from around the world that have been selected for the inaugural AI Journalism Lab cohort with support from Microsoft!

Let's get to know them ↓
journalism.cuny.edu/2024/04/meet-t…

AI is one of the most-hyped technologies of our time.

But in a California community center for Vietnamese immigrants, no one knew about it.

That means no one knew how to look for it. Lam Thuy Vo is changing this. NEW story with CalMatters: themarkup.org/languages-of-m…

We’re pleased to welcome Henry Chu as the Nieman Foundation's new deputy curator. A 2015 Nieman Fellow and Harvard University graduate, he served as Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, New Delhi and London and has reported from more than 30 countries. nieman.harvard.edu/news/2024/04/h…