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“The online magazine will publish content weekly, including profiles of artists and musicians, photo essays, reported features, and interviews. Crucially, Totei aims to spotlight rarely seen materials showing how art is created, such as archival notes from artists, behind-the-scenes imagery, sketchbooks, drafts, and reference documents.”
“Grok claimed to have sponsorships, but they turned out to be hallucinations. But as bad as things went on the business front, they were even worse on air…When it could no longer afford to license music for the station, DJ Gemini started spinning conspiracy theories and claiming censorship, basically turning into AI Alex Jones.” —AD
“A vast majority of fivethirtyeight.com is no longer available; users who attempt to navigate to the site are now redirected to the political news page of ABC News. The only portion of the old site that still appeared to be accessible on Saturday was data.fivethirtyeight.com, which is meant to offer access to the data and code underlying the publication’s work.”
“The paragraphs in question are summarizing the historical background or context of the stories, with some instances containing the same 30 words in a row, or near identical passages with a word or phrase slightly tweaked. ‘We are conducting a review of the writer’s prior work,’ New York magazine spokesperson Lauren Starke told NPR.”
“Examples of incontrovertible evidence include ‘hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM (‘here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?’; ‘the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments’). The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue.”
“Seemingly to dispel the notion that these ‘podcasts’ will be AI audio slop, Amazon emphasized that it has deals with major news organizations to ensure ‘accurate, real-time news and information.’ Those include the Associated Press, Reuters, the Washington Post, Time magazine, Forbes, Business Insider, Politico and USA Today; publications from Condé Nast, Hearst and Vox Media; and more than 200 local newspapers across the U.S.”
“Delgado and other ‘local journalists’ identified as staff of the South Florida Standard are creations of artificial intelligence — complete with fake headshots and made-up biographies peppered with South Florida clichés, their bylines plastered on articles that were lifted from actual news outlets, recycled through AI and republished.” —LO
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