This analysis of AI media verification tools could be turned into a benchmark that assesses them over time. Even better would be a journalism benchmark using hard examples from real verification use cases... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/t...
Cleveland's top newspaper is "removing writing from some reporters' workloads" by using AI to draft articles.
We dove into what drove the paper's editor to do that, how it's going and what the paper's human reporters think about it. wapo.st/4aX44e1 w/ @scottnover.bsky.social
Was the Anthropic deadline Friday because they needed it for a weekend thing?
It only took about five years since we proposed it (cacm.acm.org/opinion/what...) , but YouTube recently started rolling out its likeness detection feature to alert creators to synthetic versions of themselves on the platform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcZt...
Research suggests people who use AI tools to find news seem to prefer them over clicking on individual stories, despite being conscious of their limits when it comes to accuracy. @aisvarya17.bsky.social and I wrote about what publishers can learn from this www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...
What if you could practice your interview skills with a simulated science journalist? New on Generative AI in the Newsroom: generative-ai-newsroom.com/training-bet...
New blog post: A case study on using Claude Code in data journalism ->
kschaul.com/post/2026/02...
AI is helpful for monitoring, collecting, and helping appraise research for a living literature review, but when it comes to synthesis or interpretation it's still lacking: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/experiment...
oddly though "sicko fan" also makes perfect sense!
This diagram shows how elections work to create authority, and ultimately are where the buck stops in terms of accountability in a democracy:
At the end of the day the accountability for these actions is in the next election. Connecting the issues to affordability may be a way forward, e.g. data centers raising prices, AI and wages, etc.
Ironic
Sometimes I just want to pack up and get out of this country. Anyone else? Where are people landing?
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Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...
I have started a public notebook for the C+J conference at the University of Miami today and tomorrow.
notebooklm.google.com/notebook/51e...
What’s the Gen Z hand signal for “check please”? I imagine it’s a sort of phone tapping motion…
A smart explanation of "vibe coding," including how @jamditis.bsky.social used it to build a dashboard for volunteers in Springfield, NJ who were coordinating food assistance deliveries during the SNAP crisis and beyond generative-ai-newsroom.com/vibe-coding-...
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Northwestern’s agreement to restore federal funding: www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
Sadly it is pretty normal in academic publishing… and also why I mostly don’t write chapters for these kinds of books anymore. You can request it through inter library loan or get a chapter scanned by our library…
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@jeremybmerrill.com you two should chat.
We mapped Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois with @evidentmedia.org.
A federal judge will hold a hearing today (November 5th) on whether a temporary restraining order restricting crowd-control tactics in Illinois should be converted into a preliminary injunction.
youtube.com/shorts/HKXEY...
Do you have to have to be a professor or have a PhD to be a scientist?
Check out the datainnovation.org newsletter— it’s almost all beneficial cases they share every week, though I’ve never assessed it in terms of hype…
Well so we focused on the negative impacts there so didn’t actually analyze the benefit side. I would venture the general norm in straight reporting is to focus on concrete but speculation creeps in esp in opinion. Would be a good empirical question…
