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The venerable has a new AI chatbot, designed to answer climate questions. Why won't it answer prompts about AI's growing climate footprint?
Artificial Intelligence

Washington Post Launches AI to Answer Climate Questions, But It Won’t Say Whether AI Is Bad for the Climate

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The New York Times' union is claiming that the paper is firing human artists to replace them with artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence

Leaked Memo Claims New York Times Fired Artists to Replace Them With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Washington Post's new-ish CEO has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn sales around.
Artificial Intelligence

The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Writers at the newspaper giant Gannett quietly updated employment contracts to provide much more leeway for generating "news content."
Future Society

Gannett Staff Furious Over Contract Allowing AI “to Generate News Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A report from Nieman Labs reveals that Newsweek, a 90-year-old journalistic institution, is using AI in its newsroom.
Artificial Intelligence

Newsweek Is Using AI in Its Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Arena Group, which allowed for the publishing of AI content to legacy title Sports Illustrated, has lost the venerable magazine entirely.
Artificial Intelligence

The Company That Published Fake AI Authors at Sports Illustrated Just Lost the Whole Magazine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new poll found that 80 percent of Americans think presenting AI content as human-made should be illegal.
Artificial Intelligence

80 Percent of Americans Think Presenting AI Content as Human-Made Should Be Illegal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Arena Group announced that its board of directors has terminated the employment of its CEO, Ross Levinsohn. 
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Publisher Fires CEO After AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Top Execs at Sports Illustrated’s Publisher Fired After AI Debacle
Artificial Intelligence

Top Execs at Sports Illustrated’s Publisher Fired After AI Debacle

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The human members of the Sports Illustrated Union have made their feelings about the Arena Group's fake writer-penned content clear.
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Union Says It’s “Horrified” by Publication of AI-Generated Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After Sports Illustrated tried to deny articles were written by AI, people have been criticizing the publication.
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Absolutely Roasting Sports Illustrated’s Ridiculous Excuse for Its AI-Generated Writers

By Sharon Adarlo

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If Seekr's AI algorithm is to be believed, The Messenger's reporting isn't all that reliable. Tough foot for a partnership to start on, no?
Artificial Intelligence

News Site Partners with AI Service That Measures Reliability, Which Flags Its Articles as Unreliable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

G/O Media-owned sports news site Deadspin's AI, "Deadspin Bot," has been resuscitated, and is now busy churning out stats.
Artificial Intelligence

Deadspin’s AI Is Suddenly Publishing Dozens of New Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

MSN aggregated a seemingly AI-generated article about the recent death of former NBA player Brandon Hunter, which has now been taken down.
Artificial Intelligence

MSN Deletes Plagiarized, Incoherent AI Articles, Then Continues Cranking Out More

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's MSN news portal published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated article that derided Hunter as "useless" in its headline.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player “Useless”

By Victor Tangermann

On our review, almost every single word of the A.V. Club's AI-generated articles appears to be copied directly from IMDb.
Artificial Intelligence

The A.V. Club’s AI-Generated Articles Are Copying Directly From IMDb

By Frank Landymore and Jon Christian

After replacing its human writers with a translation AI, G/O stripped Gizmodo Español of all bylines — including those of its laid-off staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Is Stripping Journalists’ Bylines Off AI-Translated Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gannett promised that no AI content would be published to its vast network without direct human oversight. This isn't how things played out.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Promised to Be Super Responsible With AI Before Completely Bungling It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We spoke to a Gannett sports writer about high school sports coverage, why it matters, and what gets lost when you automate.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Sports Writer on Botched AI-Generated Sports Articles: “Embarrassing”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI sports efforts, is supplying a number of local news publishers with the same service.
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today and Many Other Newspapers Are Churning Out Terrible AI-Generated Sports Stories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown reiterated the company was committed to AI articles despite "external commentary.
Artificial Intelligence

G/O Tells Staff Not to Worry About Everyone Mocking Their Horrible AI Content

By Victor Tangermann

CNET staffers are unionizing, and they've named AI — and the lived impact that AI initiatives have on human life and work — as a concern.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Staff Unionize, Saying AI Use “Threatens Our Jobs and Reputations”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A man has written almost 100 books using AI and claims he has "sold 574 books for a total of nearly $2,000 between August and May."
Artificial Intelligence

Man Uses AI to Write 97 Terrible Books, Sells $2,000 Worth

By Sharon Adarlo

Buzzfeed, Inc. CEO Jonah Peretti just laid out his new AI vision — and it sounds like a plagiarized, choose-your-own-adventure content farm.
Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Says AI Will “Replace the Majority of Static Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just a week after urging its writers to incorporate AI tools like ChatGPT into their workflow, Insider has laid off 10 percent of its staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Per leaked messages, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner is "all for climate change." He also asked a former tabloid EIC to influence German elections. Cool.
Future Society

In Leaked Messages, CEO Says He Supports Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

BuzzFeed pledged to do a good job with its AI content. But then it quietly started posting entire articles written by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

After infamously pivoting to AI article writing, CNET owner Red Ventures appears to be hitting staff with a fresh round of layoffs.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Hits Staff With Layoffs After Disastrous Pivot to AI Journalism

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

CNET was treating its human journalists like robots long before turning to AI-generated content. I would know -- I worked there.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Was Treating Staff Like Robots Long Before Publishing AI-Generated Articles

By Sarah Szczypinski

Bloomberg has decided to chastise the lab-grown meat industry's failure to address cancer concerns — because of the fact that there... aren't... any.
Cancer

Bloomberg Shredded for Amazingly Stupid Article About Fake Meat and Cancer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This morning, CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo broke the site's lengthy silence on its decision to publish dozens of AI-generated articles on its site. 
Artificial Intelligence

News Site Admits AI Journalist Plagiarized and Made Stuff Up, Announces Plans to Continue Publishing Its Work Anyway

By Jon Christian

Hackers have taken over a subdomain of wired.com, and used it to promote an Indonesian online casino. Wired does not appear to be able to kick them out.
Hacking

Hackers Took Over a Subdomain of Wired.com for Several Months and Replaced It With Sleazy Online Casino Content

By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian

CNET insiders are making a startling claim: that the tech site has been secretly publishing material that wasn't labeled as bot-written at all.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Secretly Used AI on Articles That Didn’t Disclose That Fact, Staff Say

By Jon Christian

The AI bot that CNET is using to churn out personal finance articles has a relatable problem: it keeps making dumb mistakes.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors

By Jon Christian

Writers and journalists across the industry weigh in on the upsetting news that CNET has been using an AI to write its financial explainers.
Artificial Intelligence

Internet Horrified by CNET Secretively Publishing Articles Written by an AI

By Frank Landymore

If you caught that MSN story alleging that Grimes took to Twitter to publicly ask ex-boyfriend Elon Musk to pay child support, uncatch it. It's fake.
Elon Musk

MSN Ran a Story About Grimes and Elon Musk That’s Completely Fake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNN was one of the earliest NFT adopters — and now, is among the many who have dropped their crypto projects as the market continues its months-long slump. 
NFTs

CNN In Hot Water With Investors After Canceling Its Weird NFT Project

By Noor Al-Sibai

A typo in the New York Times was tweeted out by Twitter bots called New New York Times and NYTfirstsaid Context. The typro was "crytpo" instead of "crypto."
Future Society

In Hilarious Typo, New York Times Complains of “Crytpo” Miners

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Larry Dvoskin, an NFT entrepreneur, recently paid at least $2,000 to publish an article about how great NFTs are in The Rolling Stone.
NFTs

NFT Guy Pays Rolling Stone to Run Article About How Great NFTs Are

By Tony Ho Tran

The BBC released then promptly edited a climate change for kids that listed a bunch of "positive impacts" that it would have on the UK and the world.
Climate Change

BBC Mocked For Teaching Kids Climate Change Will Have Nice Upsides

By Dan Robitzski

The newspaper The Guardian published an op-ed supposedly written by the AI algorithm GPT-3, but human editors had a major role in shaping the final version.
Artificial Intelligence

Major Newspaper Publishes Op-Ed Written by GPT-3

By Dan Robitzski

Yesterday, you might have noticed a wave of news stories about college kids intentionally trying to catch coronavirus. It may not have been true.
Developments

Did the Media Get Suckered by a Fake Story About College Kids Catching COVID on Purpose?

By Jon Christian

The YouTube search bar frequently autocompletes queries with major movie and TV spoilers — yet another example of the site's content moderation struggles.
Future Society

YouTube’s Autocomplete Feature Has a Huge Spoiler Problem

By Jon Christian

Facebook has already divvied up the first $37 million that it will send to organizations that help fund local news coverage around the world.
Investing

Facebook is Investing $300 Million in Local Journalism Projects

By Dan Robitzski

According to the Pew Research Center, more Americans now get their news from social media than do from traditional printed newspapers.
Future Society

For News, Americans Now Officially Prefer Social Media to Newspapers

By Dan Robitzski

A New Contest Is Looking For AI That Can Fix How We Get Our News
Artificial Intelligence

A New Contest Is Looking For AI That Can Fix How We Get Our News

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook Wants To Make Its News More Credible With New Hires And Partnerships
Future Society

Facebook Wants To Make Its News More Credible With New Hires And Partnerships

By Dan Robitzski

There Are Better Ways To Serve Journalism Than To Rank Outlets By “Trustworthiness”
Future Society

There Are Better Ways To Serve Journalism Than To Rank Outlets By “Trustworthiness”

By Dan Robitzski

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Cancer

Bacon? Cell Phones? It’s Rarely Just One Thing That Causes Cancer

By Jolene Creighton

Free Science Could Be the Answer to Our “Fake News” Epidemic
Future Society

Free Science Could Be the Answer to Our “Fake News” Epidemic

By Chelsea Gohd

A New Era of Journalism: NY Times Releases Virtual Reality Storytelling
Virtual Reality

A New Era of Journalism: NY Times Releases Virtual Reality Storytelling

By Joseph Libunao