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Emily Bell

@emilybell
143 posts
2025-01-05
Joel Kaplan's first day is going well [embedded post]
2025-01-05 View on X
404 Media

After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them

and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, I...

2025-01-04
Joel Kaplan's first day is going well [embedded post]
2025-01-04 View on X
404 Media

After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles

Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …

2024-05-30
Entering into a newsroom deal with OpenAI is materially different to say entering into the same with Google. Google does have a track record, known management, some level of accountability. OpenAI has nothing like this, and an emerging pattern of dishonesty
2024-05-30 View on X
Axios

The Atlantic and Vox Media sign multiyear licensing and product deals with OpenAI; The Atlantic plans an experimental Atlantic Labs with OpenAI's and other tech

- The Atlantic has been publishing content since 1857. … - Both agreements also allow OpenAI to tap into the respective …

2024-05-25
For those interested in the #AIJournalism deals, we have launched a database of deals @TowCenter and our research director @beteprown has written an analysis of the early deals and questions that remain. A ‘pricing model is emerging’ ...https://www.cjr.org/...
2024-05-25 View on X
Columbia Journalism Review

An overview of existing deals between news publishers and AI companies and the questions they raise regarding long-term costs, the selection process, and more

In the past few weeks, News Corp, the Financial Times and Dotdash Meredith became the latest news organizations to strike licensing deals …

2024-05-21
It's almost as if this is the dishonest act of a bad faith CEO and company. Also 3 stages of SV hubris....1.will not take no for an answer, 2. can't believe rejection is real or rational, 3. Goes ahead and does it anyway
2024-05-21 View on X
NBC News

Scarlett Johansson says she declined OpenAI's ChatGPT voice offer and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “eerily similar” to hers

The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.

2024-02-28
And here is the chaser - independent research showing *just how unreliable AI is for truth-critical tasks like informing people about their right to vote etc https://www.proofnews.org/...
2024-02-28 View on X
Proof

A review of Claude, Gemini, GPT-4, Llama 2, and Mixtral found the models often gave inaccurate or misleading election information; GPT-4 was least inaccurate

2024-02-08
This is an insane story from @Knibbs - and for those starry eyed or in denial and AI+ news - a must read. (The bitter irony of Jimmy Lai being wrongly held whilst his abandoned news site Apple Daily is turned into a ChatGPT click farm is peak 2024 ) https://www.wired.com/...
2024-02-08 View on X
Wired

An interview with Nebojša Vujinović Vujo, who runs 2,000+ AI-generated news sites, often hosted on once-popular domains, and claims to have ~12 human editors

There will ultimately be a post-platform platform for journalism, not sure it is here yet. It needs enough of a railing alongside a torrent (sorry Nietzsche) to help those who dig up new facts over those who don't
2024-02-08 View on X
Semafor

Q&A with Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on Medium expecting to turn a profit in 2024, distribution, training LLMs, AI-generated content, media layoffs, and more

Reed Albergotti / Semafor : Mastodon: @nicol@social.coop . X: @nbj914 , @emilybell , @bigmeaninternet , @seamushughes , @te_rowley , and @semaforben See also Mediagazer Mastodon: ...

2024-02-07
This is a key commitment by Meta. In the past - particularly around its ‘fact check’ flags etc - Meta's labeling or flagging of content has been hopelessly inconsistent . Can it do better with AI?
2024-02-07 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI says DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to images with C2PA metadata but acknowledges the metadata can “easily be removed either accidentally or intentionally”

OpenAI's image generator DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to image metadata as more companies roll out support for standards …

This is a key commitment by Meta. In the past - particularly around its ‘fact check’ flags etc - Meta's labeling or flagging of content has been hopelessly inconsistent . Can it do better with AI?
2024-02-07 View on X
New York Times

Meta proposes standards to identify AI content that its industry peers could use, and plans to label AI images posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

but Leave Plenty Undetected Scrippsnews.com : Meta to add ‘AI-generated’ label to images made by third-party tools Johanna Romero / PhoneArena : Meta will begin to label AI-generat...

2023-12-20
Great work from @propublica and @TowCenter partnership on the ongoing failure of the current X ‘blue check’ system. Proliferation of false claims no bar to follower growth
2023-12-20 View on X
ProPublica

Analysis of 2,000 misleading Israel-Hamas war X posts, viewed 500M times: verified users posting debunked claims are thriving and Community Notes isn't scaling

Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism … “My sisters have died,” the young boy sobbed, chest heaving, as he wailed into the sky. X: @emilybell , @davidclinchnews , and...

2023-11-30
@bcmerchant It is so deeply ironic that the ONE THING that has unlocked real support for news - smaller outlets included - is not really championed by any of the movements coalescing around news support in the US. My own theory is that this tracks to the lobbying money Google + FB spent here
2023-11-30 View on X
CBC News

Google and Canada reach an agreement in their dispute over the country's Online News Act; Google plans to pay news companies around CA$100M, or ~$74M, per year

Agreement comes 3 weeks before Online News Act rules come into force  —  Google and the federal government have reached …

2023-11-23
OpenAI fires women on the board- (board chair who oversaw fuck up stays🤷‍♀️) - joining board is *Larry Summers* who once said women don't have the same ‘intrinsic aptitude’ for STEM, and associated with Jeffrey Epstein even after he was convicted of sex offences
2023-11-23 View on X
The Information

Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern

One day before he was fired by OpenAI's board last week, Sam Altman alluded to a recent technical advance the company …

OpenAI fires women on the board- (board chair who oversaw fuck up stays🤷‍♀️) - joining board is *Larry Summers* who once said women don't have the same ‘intrinsic aptitude’ for STEM, and associated with Jeffrey Epstein even after he was convicted of sex offences
2023-11-23 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC :...

2023-11-22
For everyone saying ‘how weird, a non profit board owning a profit seeking enterprise’ . This is in fact the ownership structure of the Guardian, among other trust owned entities. But if you are going to survive 200 years, or even 20 years, you need tight alignment with values
2023-11-22 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

OpenAI fires women on the board- (board chair who oversaw fuck up stays🤷‍♀️) - joining board is *Larry Summers* who once said women don't have the same ‘intrinsic aptitude’ for STEM, and associated with Jeffrey Epstein even after he was convicted of sex offences
2023-11-22 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

2023-10-20
When platforms own media and technology and are invested in geopolitical advantages ...... we are jumping out of the rusting skillet of corporate media into the fiery furnace of big tech
2023-10-20 View on X
New York Times

Jon Stewart's Apple TV+ show abruptly ends, sources say over creative differences; source: Stewart said potential China and AI topics concerned Apple executives

Mr. Stewart and Apple are parting ways because of creative differences over “The Problem,” people with knowledge of the decision said.

2023-08-01
Those free speech advocates in full .... Legally threatening research outfits. Of course one route might just be to point to available data open to all researchers ....except it cut that off https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-08-01 View on X
New York Times

Twitter/X files a lawsuit against Center for Countering Digital Hate, accusing the nonprofit and its backers of “actively working to prevent free expression”

The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter's parent company …

2023-07-31
Those free speech advocates in full .... Legally threatening research outfits. Of course one route might just be to point to available data open to all researchers ....except it cut that off https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-07-31 View on X
New York Times

Twitter/X threatens to sue Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging the nonprofit made “troubling and baseless claims” to hurt Twitter and its ad business

The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter's parent company …

2023-07-25
I said this yesterday (or today...who knows....time is a flat circle) and this is a filled out version of my tweet-sized thesis : destroying Twitter was always the object. One thing - it's not *just* cultural vandalism - it's the destruction of civic infrastructure
2023-07-25 View on X
Platformer

Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism

RIP Twitter (2007-2023)  —  On Monday afternoon, a crane rolled up to Twitter's headquarters on Market Street.