AI law and ethics
AI law and ethics
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Writing and Exclusion: AI Helps Expand Definitions of Literacy
Interesting post from CUNY’s Jeff Jarvis on how to understand AI tools, not run from them.
Markkula Center: Guidelines for the Ethical Useof Generative AI on Campus
Columbia Journalism Review: Is AI Software a Partner for Journalism, or a Disaster?
How Wired.com is Using AI Technology
Good example of transparency with readers
Personal Policy on Ethical AI Use
Example of a good policy to share with readers about how you’re using AI in your journalism.
Poynter: New AP Stylebook Guidelines on AI
Reuters Institute: Focus on the Humans, Not the Robots: Tips from the Author of AP Guidelines on How to Cover AI
A Q&A with Garance Burke, who led the development of the AI chapter in the latest edition of the AP Stylebook.
Partnership on AI: Responsible Practices for Synthetic Media
PineCone: Understanding Hallucinations in AI – A Comprehensive Guide
GPTbot
OpenAI’s webcrawler has documentation that news orgs can use to block the crawler from grabbing their content.
Wired: Will AI Take Over Your Job, or Will You Work Side-by-Side with Machines?
Good Reads: I Would Rather See My Books Pirated Than This
Author Jane Friedman on how someone used AI to create fake books under her name and sell them on Amazon.
Trusting News: See How Newsrooms Talk Publicly About Improving Diversity in Their Coverage
Lynn Walsh used AI in the writing of this post. Disclosure included at the bottom)
Algorithms in the Newsrooms: Challenges and Recommendations for Artificial Intelligence with the Ethical Values of Journalism
Research-based analysis of the ethics of AI and journalism by Patrícia Ventura Pocino.
NY Times: ‘A.I. Obama’ and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok
Oliver Wyman: AI’S Bias May be Easier to Fix Than Humanity’s, Here’s Why
Generative AI in the Newsroom: AI and News: What’s Next?
Poynter: To Build Trust in the Age of AI, Journalists Need New Standards and Disclosures
Trusting News: Can ChatGPT and AI Help Us Prevent Bias and Polarization in Our Reporting?
Simon Rogers: AI for Data Storytelling
NY Times: Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See?
AI Comprehensive Guide to Ethical Prinicples and Practices
Sarah Silverman Suing OpenAI and Meta Over Copright Infringement
RJI: Don’t have a newsroom policy for ChatGPT? Join the club!
Toward Guidelines for Guidelines on the Use of Generative AI in Newsrooms
Slate: AI Can I Have My Old Job?
Forbes: AI-Created Images Aren’t Protected By Copyright Law According To U.S. Copyright Office
Fortune: Nvidia and Adobe try to Fix AI’s Copyright Problem
VoxEurop: A Call for Generative AI-Free Newsrooms
Nieman Reports: Smart Ways Journalists Can Explore AI
Birmingham City University: Generative AI Diversity Guidelines – Birmingham School of Media
PressGazette.co.uk: Ethics of Generative AI for Journalism: What We Know So Far
Ultimate List of AI Tools
A great list from Descript’s Ashley Hamer.
CJR: How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Journalists?
Understanding Journalism and AI
An excellent Medium post by Corinne Podger that includes best practices, academic research, links to tools and more.
PR Newswire: Communications, AI andthe Role of Ethics
Artificial Intelligence in Local News: A Survey of US Newsrooms’ AI Readiness
Download a free .PDF of The Associated Press’ groundbreaking report that provides important insights into local news outlets’ understanding of artificial intelligence and their readiness to use AI to meet their journalism and business needs. The report is based on survey results from nearly 200 newsrooms across all 50 states and more than two dozen in-depth interviews with local news leaders. Print, radio, television and digital outlets are represented, as well as commercial and nonprofit operations. In addition to demonstrating a readiness to adopt AI and automation technologies, the report outlines what local news providers need to drive technological innovation.
Journalism.co.uk: Eight Tasks ChatGPT Can Do for Journalists
101 AI Tools You Can Start Using Today
GIJN: 10 Things You Should Know About AI in Journalism
GIJN: Journalist’s Guide to Using AI and Satellite Imagery for Storytelling
Nieman Lab: AI Throws a Lifeline to Local Publishers
A forward-thinking article, written in late 2022, by Joe Amditis, assistant director of products and events at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University.
The Guardian: ChatGPT is Making up Fake Guardian Articles. Here’s How We’re Responding
Nieman Lab: The Year AI Truly Arrives – With Reckoning
Written by Burt Herman, former AP journalist and founder of Storify.
A People’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Forbes: 10 Most Important AI Trends for 2024 That Everyone Must Be Ready For
The Economist: The 5 Best Books for Understanding AI
Nieman Lab: Synthetic Media Forces Us to Understand How Media Gets Made
Written by Sam Gregory, director of programs, strategy, and innovation at Witness, the global human rights and civic journalism network.
Knight Lab: AI, Automation and Newsrooms
The Fix: AI Tools to Save Journalists Time and Money
Wonder Tools: Try These AI Writing Tools in 2023
A great collection of tools in Jeremy Caplan’s Substack newsletter.
Data Journalism: Wrangling the Robots: Leveraging Smart Data-Driven Software for Newsrooms
The Artificial Creativity Landscape
More than 180 AI tools in a downloadable PDF. Just click on the icons to find your next AI tool for creative and knowledge work.
Analytics Insight: The Rise of AI Tools for Automated Journalism
Why Local News Should be Utilizing AI
From the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri.
JournalismAI
A research and training project at Polis, the international journalism think tank of the London School of Economics.
Associated Press: AI Projects and How We’re Using the Technology
Images of AI
No, it’s not robots. Here are some Creative Commons-licensed images that you can use.
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