WSJ / Keach Hagey, Alexandra Bruell, Tom Dotan, and Miles Kruppa
BuzzFeed News / Chris Stokel-Walker
The Verge / James Vincent
The rushed launch of AI chatbots from Google and Microsoft will degrade the web’s info ecosystem →“Right now, if you ask Microsoft’s Bing chatbot if Google’s Bard chatbot has been shut down, it says yes, citing as evidence a news article that discusses a tweet in which a user asked Bard when it would be shut down and Bard said it already had, itself citing a comment from Hacker News in which someone joked about this happening, and someone else used ChatGPT to write fake news coverage about the event.”
POLITICO / Goli Sheikholeslami and John Harris
CBS News / Ahmed Shawkat and Haitham Moussa
Bloomberg / Ashley Carman
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Kirsten Eddy, Amy Ross Arguedas, Mitali Mukherjee, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
The percentage of people of color in the general population remains higher than among top news editors →“Overall, 23% of the 81 top editors across the 100 brands covered are people of color, despite the fact that, on average, 44% of the general population across all five countries are people of color … In Brazil and Germany, as in 2022, none of the outlets in our sample have a person of color as top editor. In the UK, 6% of those in top editorial positions are people of color. In the US, the percentage of top editors of color remained the same as in 2022, at 33%.”