No, it’s not a robot: prompt writing for investigative journalism (Paul Bradshaw, Slideshare)
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A new era of AI-assisted journalism at Bloomberg (Claudia Quinonez, Edgar Meij, AI Magazine)
Audiences, automation, and AI: From structured news to language models (David Caswell, AI Magazine)
Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click (Cloudflare, cloudflare.com)
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold (Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing)
OpenAI cuts its last and most important link to China (Russel Brandon, Rest of World)
ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners’ biggest investigations (Andrew Deck, NiewmanLab)
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots (Maggie Appleton, maggieappleton.com)
Forget Deepfakes: Social Listening Might be the Most Consequential Use of Generative AI in Politics (Dean Jackson, Zelly Martin, TechPolicy)
When the Terms of Service Change to Make Way for A.I. Training (Eli Tan, NYTimes)
Blazing Fast Local Chatbots with Llama.cpp and Gradio (Freddy A. Boulton, freddyboulton.com)
Prompting Techniques and Best Practices for Journalists (Mowafak Allaham, Generative AI in the Newsroom)
AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution. (Evan Halper, Caroline O’Donovan, WaPost)
AI’s coming inverted pyramid moment for journalism (David Cohn, Poynter)