The Verge – A fake presidential pardon explains why you can’t trust robots with the news – ChatGPT, it turns out, is a woefully bad way to explore the historical record…Whatever happened in this case, there’s a running pattern of people relying on ChatGPT or other AI services to provide answers, only to get hallucinations… Continue Reading
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Top Ten EFF Digital Security Resources for People Concerned About Incoming Trump Administration
“In the wake of the 2024 election in the United States, many people are concerned about tightening up their digital privacy and security practices. As always, we recommend that people start making their security plan by understanding their risks. For most people in the U.S., the threats that they face and the methods by which… Continue Reading
How ChatGPT Search (Mis)represents Publisher Content
Columbia Journalism Review – “ChatGPT search—which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing—launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively with the news industry” and “carefully listened to feedback” from certain news organizations that have signed content licensing agreements with the company. In… Continue Reading
Best Business Journalism of the Year
Bloomberg: “In Catholicism, envy is one of the seven deadly sins. In professional journalism, it’s a virtue, albeit too seldomly expressed. Which is why every year, Bloomberg Businessweek commits this cardinal act for all to witness, with our annual Jealousy List. Below, we’ve asked our editors and contributors to identify that one story in 2024… Continue Reading
FTC – Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services
Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services, September 2024. In December 2020, the Federal Trade Commission issued 6(b) Orders to nine of the largest social media and video streaming services—Amazon, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snap, ByteDance, Discord, Reddit, and WhatsApp (“Companies”). At the time, a bipartisan group of Commissioners issued a joint… Continue Reading
The Right Way to Use GenAI to Draft a Brief
The Right Way to Use GenAI to Draft a Brief, Carolyn Elefant (December 2024) – “It’s been two years since the public release of ChatGPT and lawyers are still using it improperly and facing sanctions, as reported last week in Reuters about an incident in the Eastern District of Texas/ Instead of wringing our hands… Continue Reading
The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy
Solove, Daniel J. and Hartzog, Woodrow, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy (July 03, 2024). 113 California Law Review (forthcoming 2025), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4884485 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4884485 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping” – the automated extraction of large amounts of data from… Continue Reading
How to Mass Delete Emails on Gmail: Best Way to Declutter
TechRepublic: “Having an email inbox full of read, unneeded messages can cause problems, especially in the Gmail mobile app. When you have thousands of emails, the Gmail app search function can get bogged down. In addition, all those obsolete emails require storage space, and soon, Gmail will force you to delete emails to free up… Continue Reading
52 things I learned in 2024
Tim Whitwell: Just a preview: When writing a sentence, don’t keep your reader waiting. [David Crystal via The Browser] Millions of free bikes have been given to children in rural India, doubling the number of girls cycling to school, increasing attendance and reducing dropouts. [Rachita Vora] On 30 September 2024, the UK became the first… Continue Reading
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late 1980s) gave its sales staff specimen books to advertise fonts and ornaments that could be… Continue Reading
AI is transforming the world of work, are we ready for it?
FT.com YouTube [free to view] – Generative AI is set to reshape the workplace. Business leaders in all sectors are eager to adopt AI tools to increase the productivity and efficiency of their workforces. With the technology changing so rapidly and the many uncertainties it brings, are businesses truly ready for it? Continue Reading
Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated
Wired: “AI-generated writing is now all over the internet. The introduction of automated prose can sometimes change a website’s character, like when once beloved publications get purchased and overhauled into AI content mills. Other times, however, it’s harder to argue that AI really changed anything. For example, look at LinkedIn. The Microsoft-owned social media site… Continue Reading
