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)

AI Mode has over 100 million monthly active users in the U.S. and India, says Google. (Abner Li, 9to5Google)

Scoops by passionate people you trust: Axios CEO Jim VandeHei sees no future for “average” journalists who chronicle events and declares the era of “Super Journalists.” He might be right and tone-deaf.

Make prompt engineering great again: A growing list of tools may help you improve your generative AI prompts, but sometimes all you need is a spreadsheet. (Clare Spencer, Generative AI in the Newsroom)

Substack surveyed 2,000 of its publishers: Male writers embrace AI (55%), women less enthralled (38%) by the so-called productivity boost.