Tuesday, April 2, 2024 |
| “I think sometimes we get stuck in an echo chamber of being around each other a little too much. And I think that can hinder some of this work.” By Sophie Culpepper. |
What We’re ReadingThe Wall Street Journal / Deepa Seetharaman
AI companies are struggling to find quality training data as publishers block access to their content →“The data shortage ‘is a frontier research problem,’ said Ari Morcos, an AI researcher who worked at Meta Platforms and Google’s DeepMind unit before founding DatologyAI last year. His company, whose backers include a number of AI pioneers, builds tools to improve data selection, which could help companies train AI models for cheaper. ‘There is no established way of doing this.'”Digiday / Alexander Lee
G/O Media and Kotaku staff are locked in a battle for the gaming website’s soul and business →Kotaku’s future “hinges on whether the decades-popular online publication’s owner G/O Media succeeds in transforming it from a gaming news outlet to a hub for game guides — tips and walkthroughs to help gamers overcome tricky challenges.”EL PAÍS English / Gonzalo Robledo
“AI helps you compensate for your weaknesses,” says author and winner of Japan’s top literary award who used ChatGPT for a passage in her book →“[Rie Kudan] said she will continue to use generative artificial intelligence in her creations because ‘it is a technology that can expand your potential.’ The author added that Japanese regulation regarding the use of AI is still ‘very ambiguous.'”MSNBC / Lyz Lenz
Why so many women had a visceral reaction to that viral essay about marriage in The Cut →“Recently,
an essay published in New York Magazine’s The Cut even argued for marriage as a feminist reclamation. Marriage, as the author described it, is a protectorate, wherein she is taken care of and pampered.”Substack / Matt Pearce
So you want to improve the economics of journalism… →“A recent article by Mark Nadel on “
New Ideas for Improving the Economics of Producing Local Journalism” in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science volunteered an idea that nearly abandoned the idea of a living journalistic wage entirely.”Platformer / Casey Newton
The ad model is coming to AI →“Like Google, AI-powered bots wind up capturing a lot of commercial intent: people looking for hotels, flights, restaurants, cars, and many other products. Google became one of the world’s richest companies by integrating sponsored links into its search results; today lots of companies, Google included, are considering how ads might be inserted into chatbots’ responses.”International News Media Association / Paula Felps
How Le Monde developed “Capping”, a tool to crack down on subscriber password sharing →“When another device tries accessing the Le Monde site simultaneously with someone else on the account, Capping detects it and asks the user if they want to switch devices. If the user switches devices, they’ll be able to keep reading. However, if it is a second user, the reading experience is degraded.”Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
The frightening backdrop to an Iranian journalist’s stabbing in London →“In some ways, the pattern appears to speak to the broader modern globalization of state-backed threats and violence—not a new problem (as the long-term threats against Rushdie indicate), but one that seems to be accelerating in an age of porous borders.”The Verge / David Pierce
Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders →“A lot of organizations care deeply about news and personalized content … and I think they’re looking around and saying ‘Wow, there’s this new wave of AI… maybe we should figure out what’s going on.’”
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