How community-first thinking can help newsrooms survive AI
AI Policy • States Newsroom
AI Policy States Newsroom is, above all, dedicated to journalism practiced by people. We believe in the power of having on-the-ground reporters covering our communities with the finesse and nuance that only human interaction can produce. We also recognize the power and potential of generative AI. We are open to the responsible and transparent use […]
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, and Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena
<p>Download the pdf here. Executive Summary Despite growing interest, the effects of AI on the news industry and our information environment — the public arena — remain poorly understood. Insufficient attention has also been paid to the implications of the news industry’s dependence on technology companies for AI. Drawing on 134 interviews with news workers […]</p>
New_ Public | After the Feed
What happens after the social media feed? A presentation on the future of conversation, community, and social connection, and how AI will affect the everyday lives of billions.
✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms
Open protocols + AI-enabled coding = building what we need for ourselves
✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms
Open protocols + AI-enabled coding = building what we need for ourselves
400 publications are now partnering with us on our News AI pilot program.
People’s information habits are evolving quickly, and platforms and publishers of all sizes are navigating these changes. To help meet this moment, we’re evolving our pa…
Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened
Researchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI to see if we can stop them from turning into echo chambers.
Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite
Large language models elevate expert consensus and moderate views, in sharp contrast to social platforms
Apple Has To Pull Its “AI” News Synopses Because They Were Routinely Full Of Shit
While “AI” (language learning models) certainly could help journalism, the fail upward brunchlords in charge of most modern media outlets instead see the technology as a way to cut corner…
Report: AI Use in Newspapers Is Widespread, Uneven… | Maryland Today
UMD Computer Scientists, Private Firms Examine News and Opinion Pages in U.S. Media
The Lenfest AI Collaborative has additional funding. That's great for open source in news.
The Lenfest AI Collaborative lets newsrooms explore a new technology together - but more importantly, it gives them the muscle to open source their work and collaborate.
Our Approach to Artificial Intelligence
We are experimenting with using AI tools to extend our work as a small nonprofit, so that we can focus our time on reinforcing human connections, conversations, and communities that have eroded.
Why you should ignore most AI research you hear about on social media
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
What it means that the AI research community can't quit twitter - rl-blogging
Some quickly jotted thoughts working through the implications
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
The legacy publication is leaning on AI for video production, a new breaking news team, and first drafts of some stories.
Social media is great but its problem is that knowledge doesn't *accumulate* anywhere. So how about a social platform where, instead of just text, each post is a small knowledge graph? AI can help with adding the structure and also contribute independently to the graph. Social KG construction
