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📣 New Article: „How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance“. This is really an important one for me, and it’s wonderful to see this published, finally! Led by Nahema Marchal (💪) this piece has been a long time in the making.
👉 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2024.2377992
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“‘The machine did it coldly. And that made it easier.’”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes
Many people think GenerativeAI is a public problem — but what kind of problem, for what kind of public, & how is the problem made?
In a new piece, I trace these questions across (1) charismatic figures, (2) failure indexes, (3) journalistic practices.
Free print here but email me if the link expires & I’ll send a copy: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YDEABN9IKUNPGQF6YWC5/full?target=10.1080/13183222.2024.2319000
#ai #generativeAI #commodon #communication #sts #mediaStudies
Many people think GenerativeAI is a public problem — but what kind of problem, for what kind of public, & how is the problem made?
In a new piece, I trace these questions across (1) charismatic figures, (2) failure indexes, (3) journalistic practices.
Free print here but email me if the link expires & I’ll send a copy: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YDEABN9IKUNPGQF6YWC5/full?target=10.1080/13183222.2024.2319000
#ai #generativeAI #commodon #communication #sts #mediaStudies
As I read this, I tried replacing “scientist” with “journalist,” and the argument largely still works…
“Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07146-0
TODAY IS THE DAY. Allow me to introduce you to my new book, "Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life" (w/ beautiful illustrations).
It's about democracy in our everyday internet-lives. And it's FREE to the internet from University of California Press: https://nathanschneider.info/govbook
Two thoughts on publishers must “use the suite of [Google GenAI] tools to produce a fixed volume of content for 12 months. In return, the news outlets receive a monthly stipend”:
(1) what exactly defines “use” in publishers must “use” tool to get the money? A % of a story is synthetic? A maximum # of edits?
(2) A press reliant on such tech-defined funding isn’t a *weakness* of democracy, it’s a *threat* to democracy.
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-paying-publishers-unreleased-gen-ai/
Christian Katzenbach
Nathan Schneider
Ben Waber