X announces a policy change suspending users from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosure
The new policy is the platform's first rule requiring any kind of AI content disclosure. — X will suspend creators …
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted material, and seeks ~$14.7M in damages
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How the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit
This story isn't just about copyright. It's about the imbalance between tech giants and the public interest — and how journalism is being mined, not supported. — 🔗 www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/what......
Reuters 2025 Digital News Report: in a first, Americans' top news source is social media, at 54%, overtaking TV, at 50%, and news websites and apps, at 48%
Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ's 2025 Digital News Report.
Interviews with The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News executives about how AI-powered summaries can help busy readers, reliability issues, and more
https://lnkd.in/eY98MPXT See also Mediagazer
A look at the LA Times' AI “Insights”: much of the cited sourcing wouldn't pass scrutiny in a newsroom or a classroom, and the political labels can be confusing
The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more “objective” if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written …
Some journalists are taking freelance jobs with AI training data companies like Scale AI, which recruit them for tasks such as fact-checking and prompt drafting
The gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs). Bluesky: @andrewdeck , @tylerborchers.com , @tonymartin , and @amywestervelt . Mas...
Tests show DeepSeek's chatbot sometimes hallucinates cited URLs and often admits that sharing news articles' content could violate copyright and skirt paywalls
The chatbot regularly called attention to subscription paywalls and acknowledged its responses were at risk of violating copyright. — www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/how- ... See also Mediagazer
Tests show DeepSeek's chatbot sometimes hallucinates cited URLs and often admits that sharing news articles' content could violate copyright and skirt paywalls
The DeepSeek hype cycle is in full force, but can the chatbot attribute sources more accurately than its competitors?
OpenAI and Microsoft announce a $10M AI local news project operated by the Lenfest Institute, starting with five US metro news organizations
$5M funding for fellowships, $5M credits for OpenAI and Azure products —No data licensing deal, just funding experimentation/fellowships More on @axios: https://www.axios.com/... @lenfestinst : Today ...
Seven leading SEO experts and publisher audience strategists on changing their approach due to Google Search's AI Overviews, how it may impact traffic, and more
Google's generative AI search feature is here to stay, but will it actually impact how digital outlets do business? X: @stevewbeales , @p0st_news , @decka227 , and @glenngabe LinkedIn: Tristan Loper ,...
An analysis of 6,599 keywords shows Google is offering AI Overviews for 17% of queries in the UK and US, but rarely for searches about current events
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TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users, including a weeks-old disaster warning; TikTok removed some of the notifications
False claims about Taylor Swift among outdated and misleading information in news-style notifications from video-sharing app
Investigation: Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and others trained their AI on a dataset containing YouTube video transcripts, including from the WSJ, MrBeast, and MIT
Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge — AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data …
Investigation: Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and others trained their AI on a dataset that contained YouTube video transcripts, including from the WSJ, MrBeast, MIT
Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge — AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data …
A summary of the apps that Apple “Sherlocked” at WWDC 2024, like 1Password and LastPass, call recording and transcription apps, and the Newji custom emoji app
Apple has been on a spree of late, announcing a host of new features for its various devices earlier this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).
Rest of World retracts an article on WhatsApp misinformation “tip lines” in India after several fact-checking orgs detail how it was “riddled with inaccuracies”
Google says there are no plans to remove the News tab on search results pages, after testing temporarily removing the filter for “a small subset of users”
but the deck is often stacked against them. Threads: Sheila Dang / @sheiladangit : I don't understand how removing the News tab is helpful to anyone https://www.niemanlab.org/... Kali Hays / @kalihays...
Microsoft strikes an AI deal with Semafor for a breaking news feed called Signals; Ben Smith says it will be written by journalists, using AI as a research tool
Pew: 30% of US adults regularly get their news from Facebook, 26% from YouTube, 16% from Instagram, 14% TikTok, 12% X, 8% Reddit, and 5% Nextdoor and LinkedIn
Facebook may be ready to divorce the news business, but it's still the No. 1 source of news on social media for Americans.