When a news outlet opens up to explain its ethics to readers, it’s not uncommon to see the readers reciprocate. They spontaneously loop other readers in. And you create a journalistic community. Transparency. Easy to talk, hard to do. This is doing: niemanlab.org/2023/08/a-norw…

Delighted to share some of the findings from this collaboration!

🗣️ Dir., Journalism & Media Ethics Subbu Vincent (Journalism & Media Ethics, Markkula Ethics Center) writes in Forbes about the costs, both economically and ethically, when AI is used in content creation, especially #journalism: 🔗 forbes.com/sites/subraman… #️⃣ #AI #GenerativeAI #Media #ethics

This is an insane story from Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️ - and for those starry eyed or in denial and AI+ news - a must read. (The bitter irony of Jimmy Lai being wrongly held whilst his abandoned news site Apple Daily is turned into a ChatGPT click farm is peak 2024 ) wired.com/story/confessi…

Journalism & Media Ethics, Markkula Ethics Center director Subbu Vincent is guest host at This Week in Digital Media on Subtext next week. More below.

Announcing our spring conference, "Journalism Ethics & the AI Challenge," happening at UW–Madison and online on Friday, April 5. Register here: ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2024-journalis…

Everyone has heard that there are serious problems with optimizing for engagement. But what are the alternatives? New paper: we gathered folks from eight platforms for an off-the-record chat to share best practices -- and document them from public sources. arxiv.org/abs/2402.06831

@emilymbender.bsky.social Karan HM Despite my lack of surprise at this content-farm approach to producing "news", it still pains me that news websites keep doing this. Karan, great job with this piece and quoting Emily Blender around the distinctions between actual journalism and generative AI text outputs.

The latest example of exactly what not to use Generative AI tools for. In this case Gemini was used by an Indian news site Biharprabha to "text out" a piece and it did this:

🗣️ Director of Journalism & Media Ethics and Forbes‘s contributor Subbu Vincent (Journalism & Media Ethics, Markkula Ethics Center) writes about the need for democratized sourcing in journalism, especially regarding local news: scu.edu/ethics/all-abo…. #️⃣ #Journalism #JournalismMatters #Democracy #Media #ethics

Our Director of Journalism and Media Ethics Subbu Vincent (Subbu Vincent) on the quick tenure of Ronna McDaniel. @forbes forbes.com/sites/subraman…