This is the future, not a newsletter. When you define something by saying what it's not, it's called "contrastive negation." Nowadays, it's a telltale of AI writing. You can see it all over Threads and LinkedIn. At the same time, the bros are feeding chatbots the Wikipedia definition of "AI writing" and telling them to...
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A Finnish newsroom’s AI rules: Helsingin Sanomat’s guidelines (Esa Mäkinen, LinkedIn)
Read-aloud articles and entire podcasts now come with AI voices. Ironically, it’s a highly trained professional speaker, journalist Victoria Craig, who is now being mistaken for a robot voice. And listeners are complaining. (Financial Times)
How we use AI in our journalism (Axios)
Case Study: How the Financial Times Approaches Transparency about AI Use in News (Liz Lohn, Felix M. Simon)
The BBC wants to make its AI use transparent to users – and is coming up with a new icon: Sparkles out, nondescript, boring, unobtrusive hexagon in.
“Make sure your final work is yours”: Internal guidelines at Business Insider allow journalists to use AI to assist with writing first drafts without public disclosure–which looks like a sensible and practical solution. (Oliver Darcy, Status)
My view on labeling AI generated content
Don't. At least not when AI is only used as an auxiliary tool, say in producing an article. When a journalist has used ChatGPT to structure their notes. When an AI proofreads and suggests improvements. Whenever a journalist decides not to use AI as a shortcut, but as a tool. When a journalist remains in...
“If we only label ‘AI’, we obscure the view of the journalistic process. (…) But we stand by our journalism – whether AI was involved or not! We should convince users of that.” AI transparency in journalism: labels for a hybrid era (Katharina Schell, Reuters Institute)
Süddeutsche Zeitung’s design team spent considerable effort creating a style guide for marking AI content—complete with sparkle icons and purple gradients. (Medium)
“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)
AI-generated band “The Velvet Sundown” garners 1M+ Spotify streams, sparking debates over platform transparency and artist compensation. (Lanre Bakare, The Guardian)
How the Associated Press Built its AI Strategy Without Breaking Trust (Ulrike Langer, News Machines)
Time launches AI audio briefing featuring four-minute podcasts based on its flagship newsletter, with voices from OpenAI called Henry and Lucy.
Google tests NotebookLM’s chatty AI podcast on Search.
