Journalist’s Tool Box – AI And Plagiarism Detection Tools: “I post this here as a warning. There are tools such as AI Undetect and Humanize AI Text, rewrite tools that offer an AI detection remover service. They can fool GPTZero, ZeroGPT, Copyleak, etc.” Continue Reading
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Mark the good stuff: Content provenance and the fight against disinformation
“BBC News’s Verify team is a dedicated group of 60 journalists who fact-check, verify video, counter disinformation, analyse data and – crucially – explain complex stories in the pursuit of truth. On Monday, March 4th, Verify published their first article using a new open media provenance technology called C2PA. The C2PA standard is a technology… Continue Reading
More than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet
Nature: “More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests. The findings, published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication on 24 January, indicate that systems to preserve papers online have failed to keep pace with the growth of research… Continue Reading
LLRX February 2024 Issue
Articles and Columns for February 2024 Scam Baiting: An Innovative Approach to Combating Online Fraud – Kyra Strick AI in Banking and Finance, February 29, 2024 – Sabrina I. Pacifici Toward a durable, dictator-proof Washington Post – David H. Rothman What Happens to Your Sensitive Data When a Data Broker Goes Bankrupt? – Jon Keegan Publishing… Continue Reading
Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads
Gizmodo: “For 20 years, a loosely organized group of Wikipedia editors toiled away curating a collection of 15,000 articles on a single subject: the roads and highways of the United States. Despite minor disagreements, the US Roads Project mostly worked in harmony, but recently, a long-simmering debate over the website’s rules drove this community to… Continue Reading
SpinScore
“We’re thrilled to announce a game-changing new feature: YouTube Video Analysis. Now, you can simply pass the link of a YouTube video to our system, and we’ll do the rest. This powerful new feature allows you to leverage our advanced bias detection and scoring system to analyze YouTube videos. Whether it’s a news segment, a… Continue Reading
Toward a durable, dictator-proof Washington Post
Via LLRX – Toward a durable, dictator-proof Washington Post – David H. Rothman’s timely, outside the box commentary addresses the growing wave of news outlets abruptly closing down their websites, laying off staff, and in some cases, eliminating access to their respective archives. Rothman proposes an alternative to “how do I charge them enough” to… Continue Reading
ChatGPT Tutorial – How to use OpenAI’s AI Tool (with Images)
ChatGPT is an excellent tool with hundreds of uses, for work and play. We show you how to get started with the AI chatbot. [h/t Pete Weiss] In this guide: How to Sign Up for ChatGPT for Free How to Use ChatGPT Prompts How to Create Images in ChatGPT How to Manage How ChatGPT Uses… Continue Reading
We Must Rescue Forgotten Geniuses If We are to Read Them
The Neglected Books Page: “Apoorva Tadepalli published an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times recently, titled “We Need to Read the Forgotten Geniuses, Not Rescue Them” [unpaywalled]. As anyone who’s familiar with this site can imagine, this was an article I read with interest. For over forty years, I’ve been fascinated with looking for forgotten… Continue Reading
Black Families Can Now Recover More of Their Lost Histories
The New York Times [Dr. Fields-Black is the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War]: “…African Americans searching for their family histories often have only small irregular pieces of an enormous puzzle. Most of those pieces are missing because enslaved African Americans were not recorded by… Continue Reading
The Best and Weirdest Work From Home Gear
Gizmodo – “If your WFH setup needs a facelift, you should check out this tech that let’s you take your gear into every room of the house. Do you never want to go back into the office again? We created a list that would make anybody’s work-from-home setup so ergonomic, comfortable, and so convenient it… Continue Reading
The Slack generation can’t communicate with the email generation
Fast Company – Why more platforms are dividing the workplace – “Workplace miscommunication and conflict are on the rise, as work becomes more decentralized and multigenerational. Should you leave important information in a voicemail to a colleague? Should you pick up a phone call from your boss after hours? How do you determine what rises to… Continue Reading
