ChatGPT just got fired.The artificial brain run by OpenAI was briefly hired as a reporter last week by a news agency.The first assignment was this: “Create news story using this source material, add names, place, when it happened: https://tn.com.ar/policiales/2023/02/27/video-un-ladron-le-pego-una-trompada-a-una-jubilada-cuando-estaba-sacando-plata-de-un-cajero-automatico/.”At...
Despite some high-profile cautionary tales, publishers have been announcing experiments with generative AI — many using OpenAI’s ChatGPT or similar tech — left and right.But Wired is the first news outlet I’ve seen publish an official AI policy that spells...
Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, should wake up each morning thankful for the existence of No. 2 Alden Global Capital.RELATED ARTICLEThe vulture is hungry again: Alden Global Capital wants to buy a few hundred more newspapersNovember 22, 2021After all,...
Social media is known for producing drama. In Twitter’s case, that’s been true as much behind the scenes as on the platform of late. On Monday, the service was hit by the latest in a series of glitches; this...
It has taken a very short time for artificial intelligence application ChatGPT to have a disruptive effect on journalism. A technology columnist for the New York Times wrote that a chatbot expressed feelings (which is impossible). Other media outlets...
How much longer can Twitter last, really?It’s already real bad over there. Elon Musk said yesterday that ad revenues have fallen 50%. The site is experiencing major outages almost once a week. During the most recent outage earlier this...
In 2014 I wrote an obit for traditional newsstands in America — stores that sold mainly tobacco products and magazines — and about the birth of a new newsstand in grocery stores and bookstores. Tremendous change is now taking place at...
Carlos Dada can’t go home to El Salvador. The editor of the groundbreaking digital website El Faro, which he cofounded in 1998, has been living in exile for years because of the threat of violence and legal persecution. But...
In addition to news related to its mobile app’s revamp and the introduction of TikTok-style music and podcast discovery feeds, Spotify announced podcast-focused news at its Stream On event in LA this morning. The company showed off a redesigned...
Social media platforms present a conundrum for journalists.On the one hand, journalists rely on social media for so many helpful aspects of their jobs. To name just a few: to connect with potential sources, to interact with audiences, to promote their work, and...
