The catastrophe of knowledge work waits to be beautiful again, and interesting, and modern: From “Mad Men” to the AI era, the problems of underconsumption. (Matt Pearce, Substack)

How Hearst’s DevHub is Building AI Tools That Work for Local News (Ulrike Langer, News Machines)

The publishers’ guide to being gaslit by tech platforms (the AI edition) (Seb Joseph, Sara Guaglione, DigiDay)

21 Ways People Are Using A.I. at Work (Larry Buchanan, Francesca Paris, New York Times). Previously: 18 journalists and news executives share how they use AI

Signs of AI writing: How Wikipedia tries to identify synthetic content.

No emotions, no praise, no mind: Extremism-scholar J.M. Berger’s three laws of chatbotics (Bluesky)

Brainstorm with a Bot: These days, we’re in an uneasy middle ground, caught between shaping a new technology and being reshaped by it. (Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker)

It’s the return of the shoe-leather reporter, empowered by an AI partner: David Cohn’s take on the Death of the Article debate.

“Transparency” and “disclosure” are buzzwords in the AI and journalism space – this report looks at the state of global research. (Center for News, Technology & Innovation)

What I Learned from Making a ‘Liquid Content’ Machine (Clare Spencer, Generative AI in the Newsroom)

From an overview how newsrooms tackle bias in large language models: Humans and AI bots have biases. But the machine won’t be offended when you call it out. (Ramaa Sharma, Reuters Institute)

$200+ monthly fees: Welcome to the two-tier AI landscape favoring the well-off. (Reece Rogers, Wired)

“Despite appearances, an LLM does not actually output text”: The Guardian’s Joseph Lochlann Smith with a myth-busting deep dive. (Medium)

Image generation, without the “AI look”: Flux.1 Krea is an open weights model with opinionated aesthetics.

“There’s no getting around the decline in traffic”: Another apocalyptic roundup on what’s happening with search. (Klaudia Jaźwińska, Columbia Journalism Review)