Tuesday, May 7, 2024 |
| For the first time ever, more online news sites produced Pulitzer finalists than newspapers did. By Joshua Benton. |
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| Just 15% of Americans paid or gave money to a local news source in the past year, according to new research from the Pew-Knight Initiative. By Sophie Culpepper. |
What We’re Reading404 Media / Jules Roscoe
Met Gala AI images of Katy Perry and Rihanna show the relentless spread of AI junk →“It’s unclear where these images came from. They appear more realistic than standard AI-generated images — enough so to fool Perry’s own mother — and they fit into a wider growing trend of image generation…The AI-generated images of these celebrities, while benign, show how generative AI tools are now a part of every news event.”TechCrunch / Ivan Mehta
Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men →“There are a lot of men in India who wear a turban, but the ratio is not nearly as high as Meta AI’s tool would suggest. In India’s capital, Delhi, you would see one in 15 men wearing a turban at most. However, in images generates Meta’s AI, roughly 3-4 out of 5 images representing Indian males would be wearing a turban.”Reuters / David Shepardson
TikTok is suing to block the law that would force a sale or ban →“The lawsuit said the divestiture ‘is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally. … There is no question: the Act (law) will force a shutdown of TikTok by January 19, 2025, silencing the 170 million Americans who use the platform to communicate in ways that cannot be replicated elsewhere.'”The New York Times / Benjamin Mullin
How a tiny Chicago news organization won 2 Pulitzers →“‘It’s stunning,’ [Invisible Institute founder Jamie Kalven], 75, said in an interview. ‘I just stepped out of our office, which is in a complete uproar of excitement.'”The New York Times / Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu
OpenAI made a deepfake detector to help spot DALL-E creations →“OpenAI said its new detector could correctly identify 98.8 percent of images created by DALL-E 3, the latest version of its image generator…Because this kind of deepfake detector is driven by probabilities, it can never be perfect. So [OpenAI] is joining the steering committee for the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, or C2PA, an effort to develop credentials for digital content.”Rolling Stone / Nikki McCann Ramirez
Lawmakers admit they want to ban TikTok over Pro-Palestinian content →“Romney noted that while ‘some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok,’ if ‘you look at the posting on TikTok and the number of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, its overwhelmingly so on TikTok…So I know that’s of real interest, and the president will have a chance to take action in that regard.'”Axios / Sara Fischer
OpenAI inks licensing deal with Dotdash Meredith →“Dotdash Meredith’s parent firm, IAC, was pushing to create an industry coalition to help unite big publishers in their fight for copyright protections from AI firms, but that effort ultimately collapsed due to conflicting business incentives within the industry.”Semafor / Max Tani
Business Insider’s editor-in-chief is stepping down →“In a meeting with the publication’s leadership Tuesday morning, Nicholas Carlson announced that he would leave his position as the top editor of the business-focused digital news outlet, and become an editor-at-large focused on longer-term projects…he also clarified that the move was not motivated by recent criticism of Business Insider’s recent reporting on academic writings by Neri Oxman, which prompted lengthy online screeds and legal threats from her husband, billionaire businessman Bill Ackman.”
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