Concerned that you or your loved ones might be participating in a massive de-skilling event? Experiencing LLM-induced psychosis? Outsourcing cognitive and emotional functions to autocomplete?
Install SLOW LLM. (Sam Lavigne, via Matt)
Hi, I'm Ole Reissmann, a journalist who builds things. I'm the first Director of AI at SPIEGEL. Before that: podcasts, news product development, platform strategy. I write about AI and journalism and send a newsletter you might enjoy.
Anthropic asked 81,000 Claude users what they want from AI. People in lower-income countries are more optimistic than those in Europe or North America. Worry about job loss is the clearest predictor of negative sentiment. Qualitative research at this scale was hard to do before. Whether Anthropic should be the one doing it is a question the report doesn’t ask.
Google is rewriting news headlines in search results. “Copilot Changes: Marketing Teams at it Again.” That’s not a headline a journalist wrote. Google did. Without telling anyone. (Sean Hollister, The Verge)
Journalist suspended for publishing AI-hallucinated quotes: A former editor-in-chief of NRC used ChatGPT, Perplexity, and NotebookLM for his newsletter, but didn’t verify quotes. He had warned colleagues about exactly this. (Dan Milmo, Guardian)
Joanna Stern made the Wall Street Journal’s best tech videos, wrote a book and went solo, and NBC came calling before she even launched. She keeps her newsletter, her videos, her events. NBC gets a chief tech analyst. Stars have always had leverage. Most of us just aren’t stars. (Sara Fischer, Axios)
A 47-step AI tool that writes nothing: Bauer’s internal content briefing system pulls articles from competitors, looks at rankings, and identifies content gaps. The journalist still has to write the piece. “The premium is on expertise and authority. We wouldn’t ever want to do anything which dilutes that.” (John Rahim, The Media Stack)
Schibsted's Videofy is now open source: The tool pulls a published article, writes a script, matches footage, adds a voiceover, and hands editors a finished video.
Image Verification Assistant: A joint CERTH-ITI and Deutsche Welle tool for image verification, metadata analysis, and reverse image search. Alpha stage, open source.
Opening a New York Times article triggers 422 network requests and 49 MB of data. Teardown of how news sites turn hostile UX into business. (Shubham Bose)
Three roles for AI in journalism: source, colleague, assistant. A framework that’s more useful than another round of newsroom culture war. (Stephen J. Adler, Columbia Journalism Review)
The first white-collar job that AI can actually replace is the one that built the AI. Now coding is conversational. One dev is pleading with his chatbot: “Pushing code that fails pytest is unacceptable and embarrassing.” (Clive Thompson, New York Times)
Three years after pivoting to AI, BuzzFeed says there’s “substantial doubt” it can keep going. (Victor Tangermann, Futurism)
Before you download a 35 GB model and watch your laptop give up: CanIRun.ai is a reality check for the local-AI-curious. Yes, there are options for an M2 with 8 GB RAM. Llama 3.1 8B is a “tight fit”, but Qwen 3.5 2B “runs great”.
