It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
The PEN Guild, the journalists’ union at Politico, says publisher Axel Springer violated agreements with the union when it used AI tools for live copy without consulting the union first. [Wired, archive] Axel Springer deployed two AI tools: [Nieman Lab]…
Cosmos is — or was — a popular science magazine published by the CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. David Ho is an oceanographer at the University of Hawai’i. Cosmos posted an article about removing carbon from the oceans. Professor Ho…
The Washington Post put up a new mission statement in January that called AI a “key enabler” of the paper’s success. It aspired to make the Post “an A.I.-fueled platform for news.” [NYT, archive] The first part of the AI-fueled…
News site Business Insider is laying off 21% of its staff. A memo on Thursday 29 May from CEO Barbara Peng blames a precipitous drop in search engine traffic. [Twitter, archive] Around 70% of Business Insider traffic came in from…
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation fills its tabloid papers across Australia with right-wing slop. Now the slop will come from a chatbot — and not a human slop churner. News Corp sent a memo to staff — which leaked immediately —…
The Manhattan Mercury is the local newspaper for Manhattan, Kansas. Editor and publisher Ned Seaton’s been worrying about AI since he was shocked in 2022 by what ChatGPT could do. [Manhattan Mercury, 2022] Seaton wanted variety in the opinion page.…
Who wouldn’t like a computer you can just talk to? LLMs are good enough at this to be impressive! You can ask it stuff naturally and get back a reasonable-looking response! This is genuinely interesting and it’s a genuine advance!…
Los Angeles Times proprietor Patrick Soon-Shiong is convinced his paper is a hotbed of Bolshevik agitators. He blocked the paper making a presidential endorsement in October 2024. But Soon-Shiong had a plan: fight back the red menace with the power…
The Guardian Media Group has announced a content deal with OpenAI. The various GPTs can serve information from the Guardian, with attribution and links back, and GMG gets a wad of cash. The company will be rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise…
BBC News has run as much content-free AI puffery as any other media outlet. But they had their noses rubbed hard in what trash LLMs were when Apple Intelligence ran mangled summaries of BBC stories that were so bad the…