404 Media: “…In many ways, this is a tale as old as time: people lie and steal content online in exchange for likes, influence and money all the time. But the spread of this type of content on Facebook over the last several months has shown that the once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook. It also shows Facebook is doing essentially nothing to help its users decipher real content from AI-generated content masquerading as real content, and that huge masses of Facebook users are completely unprepared for our AI-generated future.”
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Daily Archives: December 19, 2023
25 Films Selected for Preservation in National Film Registry
“Twenty-five influential films have been selected for the 2023 Library of Congress National Film Registry, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today. The films are selected each year for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage. The newest selections include a diverse group of films, filmmakers and Hollywood landmarks exploring… Continue Reading
How Verified Accounts on X Thrive While Spreading Misinformation About the Israel-Hamas Conflict
ProPublica: “…An investigation by ProPublica and Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism shows how false claims based on out-of-context, outdated or manipulated media have proliferated on X during the first month of the Israel-Hamas conflict. The organizations looked at over 200 distinct claims that independent fact-checks determined to be misleading, and searched for posts… Continue Reading
OpenAI Prompt Engineering Guide
OpenAI: “This guide shares strategies and tactics for getting better results from large language models (sometimes referred to as GPT models) like GPT-4. The methods described here can sometimes be deployed in combination for greater effect. We encourage experimentation to find the methods that work best for you. Some of the examples demonstrated here currently… Continue Reading
The world’s most liveable cities in 2023
The Economist: “Once again the liveability index from EIU, our sister company, is one of our most popular pieces of data journalism this year. Readers in their millions come to find where their city sits in the ranking, but they leave with a broader understanding of the world. This year marked a full recovery from… Continue Reading
Behind the Scenes at the Dismantling of Roe
The New York Times [read free]: Behind the Scenes at the Dismantling of Roe. On Feb. 10 last year, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. showed his eight colleagues how he intended to uproot the constitutional right to abortion. At 11:16 a.m., his clerk circulated a 98-page draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.… Continue Reading
What Happens in 60 Seconds on the Internet?
PC Mag: “The 11th Edition of Data Never Sleeps, the annual infographic depicting what happens every minute online, is here. Compiled yearly since 2013 by the data experts at Domo, the latest iteration continues to add new bits of data, while others fall off the list. PCMag spoke to Domo’s SVP of Product, Ben Schein… Continue Reading
Escaped longhorn bull gets home at sanctuary
Inside Daily Brief: “GOOD NEWS: A longhorn bull that is believed to have escaped from a slaughterhouse will move into an animal sanctuary. The animal made headlines when it was spotted on the train tracks at Newark Penn Station in New Jersey last month. NJ Transit reported delays for rail services between New Jersey and… Continue Reading
Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale
Martel, C., Allen, J., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2023). Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231190388 “Identifying successful approaches for reducing the belief and spread of online misinformation is of great importance. Social media companies currently rely largely on professional fact-checking as their primary mechanism for identifying… Continue Reading
It’s My Party and I’ll Read If I Want To
The New York Times [read free]: “Reading Rhythms bills itself as a series of “reading parties,” where guests read silently for an hour and chat with strangers about the books they brought. (Just don’t call it a book club.)” Continue Reading
