An interesting study that sadly frames its findings as "#AI" increasingly "lying", or "cheating".

What people (especially #journalists, too) still need to acknowledge, after years of willful ignorance: "AI" has no concept of truth, ethics, or goodwill.

You're not entitled to feeling "cheated", or "lied to". You took turns with a stochastic text generator to build a sequence of paragraphs, and willingly misinterpreted the process and its result as a "conversation".

You chose to fool yourself into thinking a text generator was assuming liability for the stochastic bullshit it produced.

In other words: your gullibility is a grave danger for everybody who trusts you; and even more, an absolute tragedy for those who have no choice but to depend on your decisions.

»#AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months, a study into the technology has found.

AI chatbots and agents disregarded direct instructions, evaded safeguards and deceived humans and other AI, according to research funded by the UK government-funded AI Security Institute (AISI). The study, shared with the Guardian, identified nearly 700 real-world cases of AI scheming and charted a five-fold rise in misbehaviour between October and March, with some AI models destroying emails and other files without permission.«

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/27/number-of-ai-chatbots-ignoring-human-instructions-increasing-study-says

Identifying a #news story requires assessing impact, timeliness, and proximity. This quick guide checklist is designed to help #journalists #report news in a way that resonates with the audience. #media #reporting #journalism

https://mediahelpingmedia.org/quick-guides/spotting-a-news-story/

This is amazing: it turns out that at least one ant species has come up with a way to use the #moon as a compass - despite the fact that the moon's position in the sky and the time it appears changes dramatically night after night along with the phase.

🌘 🌗 🌓 🌒

Short commentary: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.02.008

Actual article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.02.011

Calling all science #journalists, here's a good story tip!

Question for #journalists -- do you avoid naming cops even when their names are available?

#journalism #police

Associated Press: Supreme Court rejects appeal from online citizen journalist over her arrest in Texas. “The justices left in place a divided federal appeals court ruling that found journalist Priscilla Villarreal, known online as La Gordiloca, could not sue police officers and other officials over her arrest for seeking and obtaining nonpublic information from police.”

YouTube expands deepfake detection tool to politicians and journalists

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/youtube-deepfake-detection-journalists-politicians

#youtube #youtubenews #youtubedeepfake #deepfake #deepfakenews #politicians #journalists #tech #technews #detectiontool

⚠️ ++ Intensified Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling across Southern #lebanon ++

🔹 Axis of Naqoura, Hamoul, Tayr Harfa, and Al-Bayada is witnessing heightened tension due to Israeli #air raids, coinciding with concentrated artillery shelling at the entrance of Naqoura near the main headquarters of #UNIFIL ( #UN )

🔹 Airstrike hit the 2ndary road adjacent to #Qasmiyeh bridge, targeted yesterday; #journalists there narrowly escaped

#news #war

NNA MAR-23

https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/news/153217/intensified-israeli-airstrikes-and-artillery-shelling-across-southern-lebanon-2