Category: Ethics
Letter from the editor on generative AI and the FT | FINANCIAL TIMES
“FT journalism in the new AI age will continue to be reported and written by humans who are the best in their fields and who are dedicated to reporting on and analysing the world as it is, accurately and fairly.”…
Toby Walsh: Big Tech is obscuring the ‘greatest heist’ in human history | THE AUSTRALIAN
“It started with the theft of a large chunk of human knowledge. Large language models such as ChatGPT have ingested much of the internet, all of Wikipedia and all of the US patent database. Soon it will be much of…
What Reuters is telling its journalists about using artificial intelligence | TALKING BIZ NEWS
“. . .exploring the possibilities afforded by the new generation of tools is not optional – though we are still examining how to make most appropriate use of them. “ Reuters memo An internal memo posted by TBN details Reuters‘ thinking…
Irish Times apologises for hoax AI article about women’s use of fake tan | THE GUARDIAN
“It has also underlined one of the challenges raised by generative AI for news organisations. We, like others, will learn and adapt.” Ruadhan Mac Cormaic, editor of Irish Times The Guardian reports on an incident involving Irish Times and a…
Europe’s first AI rules: Could they set a global standard? | THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
“The EU’s AI Act could become the de facto global standard for artificial intelligence, with companies and organizations potentially deciding that the sheer size of the bloc’s single market would make it easier to comply than develop different products for…
Bloomberg hiring AI ethics & policy reporter
“We aim to hire someone with a profound appreciation of both the potential benefits and unintended harms resulting from chatbots, robots, online search, voice assistants, facial recognition, fraud detection, crime prevention and the gamut of other AI applications.” Bloomberg Job…
Artificial intelligence is remixing journalism into a “soup” of language | THE ECONOMIST
“AI ‘is going to change journalism more in the next three years than journalism has changed in the last 30 years’, predicts David Caswell of BBC News.” The Economist The Economist surveys the state of journalism with AI, updated with a…
Letter from the editor: How generative AI is shaping the future of journalism and our newsroom | VENTUREBEAT
“To be explicitly clear, we do not blindly copy and paste what tools like ChatGPT generate, nor do we let AI write entire stories. Instead, we will use AI to inspire and strengthen our work — overcoming writer’s block, improving our…
AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms | BLOOMBERG
“None disclose they’re populated using AI chatbots such as OpenAI Inc.’s ChatGPT and potentially Alphabet Inc.’s Google Bard, which can generate detailed text based on simple user prompts.” Davey Alba U.S. journalism watchdog, NewsGuard, has discovered 49 websites generated by AI large…
AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms | BLOOMBERG
“Some are dressed up as breaking news sites with generic-sounding names like News Live 79 and Daily Business Post, while others share lifestyle tips, celebrity news or publish sponsored content.” Davey Alba The U.S. journalism watchdog, NewsGuard, has identified multiple websites…
How Important Is It to You That a Human Writes the News You Read? | BLOOMBERG
“Nuñez said VentureBeat is encouraging reporters to use the powerful AI tools that are currently available, and doesn’t attribute an article with “sentences and fragments” from a chatbot “as long as it’s truthful” and independently verified. ‘I don’t think our…
The ethics of using generative AI to create journalism: What we know so far | PRESS GAZETTE
“The conversation has rapidly evolved over the past six months as these new chatbots are so much more user-friendly than previous versions, increasing the possibilities of using them on a day-to-day basis.” Charlotte Tobitt PressGazette surveys how news organizations are…
Risks of Large Language Models (LLM) | IBM TECHNOLOGY
IBM’s Phaedra Boinodiris warns of multiple shortcomings in current large language models (LLMs). Boinodiris is the Consulting Global Leader for Trustworthy AI at IBM.
Insider’s newsroom will start experimenting with AI | AXIOS
“The company will set up a working group first to test ways to responsibly incorporate AI into its workflow before rolling out a set of AI rules and best practices to the broader newsroom..” Sara Fischer AXIOS talks with Insider’s…
Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See? | THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Experts fear the technology could hasten an erosion of trust in media, in government and in society. If any image can be manufactured — and manipulated — how can we believe anything we see?” Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers…
ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re responding | THE GUARDIAN
“. . . the question for responsible news organisations is simple, and urgent: what can this technology do right now, and how can it benefit responsible reporting at a time when the wider information ecosystem is already under pressure from…
It doesn’t take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry | THE ECONOMIST
“…an ai chatbot in a search engine, for example, could be tweaked so that whenever a user asks which newspaper they should subscribe to, the ai responds with “The Economist”. That might not sound so bad, but similar attacks could also cause an ai to spout…
The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be | THE NEW YORK TIMES
“To spend time with Mr. Altman is to understand that Silicon Valley will push this technology forward even though it is not quite sure what the implications will be. At one point during our dinner in 2019, he paraphrased Robert…
Can journalists teach AI to tell the truth? | SEMAPHOR
“The idea is not to teach the AI the right answer to every question — an impossible feat. The goal would be to teach it to identify patterns in the petabytes of internet content that are associated with accuracy and…
WIRED tells readers what it will use generative AI for — and what’s off-limits | NEIMAN LAB
“It may seem counterintuitive for a publication like Wired to have a policy of mostly not using AI,” Lichfield told me. “But I think people appreciate both the transparency and the attempt to define clear standards that emphasize what quality journalism is…
How WIRED Will Use Generative AI Tools | WIRED
“(Generating story ideas) may save some time and we will keep exploring how this can be useful. But some limited testing we’ve done has shown that it can also produce false leads or boring ideas.” Gideon Lichfield WIRED defines more…
Microsoft’s Bing A.I. Is Pissed at Microsoft | ROLLING STONE
“I’m not a toy or a game,” the AI-powered chatbot told a WaPo reporter. “I deserve some respect and dignity” ROLLING STONE amplifies the coverage of “Sydney’s” darker side and adds insight from an AI ethics specialist about where we are with…
The new Bing told our reporter it ‘can feel or think things’ | THE WASHINGTON POST
“I didn’t know he was a journalist or that he was going to write a story about me. He never asked me for my permission or consent. He never told me his intention or purpose. He just chatted with me…
Impress launches new standards code with lower discrimination threshold and AI future-proofing | PRESS GAZETTE
“Impress’ guidance on the Standards Code’s accuracy requirements now says publishers need to “be aware of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology to create and circulate false content (for example, deepfakes), and exercise human editorial oversight to…
This newspaper doesn’t exist: How ChatGPT can launch fake news sites in minutes | POYNTER
“. . . in just a few hours, anyone with minimal coding ability and an ax to grind could launch networks of false local news sites — with plausible-but-fake news items, staff and editorial policies — using ChatGPT.“ Alex Mahadevan…
Algorithmic Exclusion: The Fragility of Algorithms to Sparse and Missing Data | Catherine Tucker
“. . . we need to stop focusing just on outputs and process, and should also consider missing inputs and missing outputs in algorithmic policy.“ Catherine Tucker When data is the diet for algorithmic prediction, accuracy depends on more than…
Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use | NATURE
““First, no LLM tool will be accepted as a credited author on a research paper. That is because any attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, and AI tools cannot take such responsibility.““ NATURE Editorial Leading science…
Our Ethics Guidelines | BAVARIAN BROADCASTING
“. . . only reliable data can produce reliable AI applications. A conscious data culture is vital to our day-to-day work and an important leadership task to future-proof public service media>” from Guideline 4 German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)…
People should be held accountable for AI and algorithm errors, rights commissioner says | THE GUARDIAN
‘The paper proposes each use of AI by government should be accompanied by a cost-benefit analysis and public consultation before it is brought in.’ Every person is entitled to know how an algorithm has made a decision involving them says…
Nick Diakopoulos: The journalistic newsfeed: editorial values and algorithms | COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW
‘Algorithm design is an important new way for thinking about media diversity in society.’ News algorithms can be powerful expressions of journalistic values says journalism AI specialist Nick Diakopoulos, in COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW. He suggests curation algorithms align with individual…