AI

News organizations have embraced AI narrators. But how does artificial mediation change our relationship to a piece of writing?

Mike Rogoway of The Oregonian discusses AI data centers, their impact, and what comes next. 

Clearing up confusion about how and why to disclose AI use in writing.

The White House correspondents’ dinner is about to get weird(er). Plus, getting conned all over Texas.

Speaking with newsroom leaders and policy experts to think through the rules for journalists—and how to make them work for your organization.

Freelance photographers are organizing against a new contract at the Wall Street Journal that they say opens their work up to AI training.

Journalists using LLMs should know about the implications for their First Amendment protections.

In the first edition of our new technology advice column, Ask Anika, we learn what happens when you feed unpublished work into an LLM.

A coalition of tech-minded journalists and security trainers built an AI chatbot for safety advice, targeted at small newsrooms and freelancers. 

Rage-inducing machines, gambling slop, and big bad kids’ hockey.

The good news and the bad news about AI agents for journalism.

Journalists across the United States are fighting for contracts that address AI use: “We don’t want it to be done in our name, literally.”

“At least some of these big companies look for communities that are news deserts to build projects,” a local journalist said, “because it’s easier for them when there’s less public scrutiny.”

Google’s attempts to repackage news are encroaching on publishers. As a cofounder of WTF Is SEO?, an industry newsletter, has observed: “A growing sentiment is that Google is not a partner but a competitor.” 

Tech companies say that LLMs work better if they remember things about you. But people may find themselves “insulated from the truth by the very tools they use to seek it.”