Nick Diakopoulos

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Northwestern Prof. of Computational Journalism. On sabbatical in Amsterdam at UvA. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com/
New from @sachnishal.bsky.social on the Generative AI in the Newsroom blog -- fine-tuning, prompting, and evaluation of news angle generation: https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/getting-the-science-and-the-scoop-with-news-angles-from-gpt-3-b1b4fcd7f6b1
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How can you know if your content was used to train an AI model like GPT-3 or 4? In this post I show that OpenAI's models appear to have memorized boilerplate text from the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Economist. https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/finding-evidence-of-memorized-news-content-in-gpt-models-d11a73576d2
Ever wondered about using generative AI but weren't sure about the terms of use? Here's @Nhelberger with a deep dive legal analysis of the ToU for five model providers: Open AI, Midjourney, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and StabilityAI: https://medium.com/generative-ai-in-the-newsroom/generative-ai-in-media-journalism-think-big-but-read-the-small-print-first-375f2ecb1256
#InTheMedia 🗞️The rise of Generative #ArtificialIntelligence has raised questions about the use of this technology in #journalism. @hannescools wrote about the importance of newsroom guidelines for #GenerativeAI on @medium with @ndiakopoulos. Read about their analysis and suggestions 👉 https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/towards-guidelines-for-guidelines-on-the-use-of-generative-ai-in-newsrooms-55b0c2c1d960
One of the questions that comes up over and over again for newsrooms is what guidelines to put in place for using generative AI. Working together with @hannescools we analyzed 21 existing guidelines documents and also made a few suggestions for others thinking about developing their own: https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/towards-guidelines-for-guidelines-on-the-use-of-generative-ai-in-newsrooms-55b0c2c1d960
Here's an inspiring story of how @MarshallProj is using generative AI to help structure and summarize complex bureaucratic policy documents for its audience: https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/decoding-bureaucracy-5b0c1411171
News article headlines suggested using OpenAI's models in the YESEO app were helpful for a majority of journalists in their editorial process. Read about the study from Ryan Restivo here: https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/how-the-yeseo-app-tested-gpt-models-with-users-94838bad328
How the YESEO App Tested GPT Models for Headline Generation with Users

Since my RJI Fellowship project embraced helping newsrooms with SEO best practices via Slack, the YESEO app has been working to practically apply OpenAI’s GPT technology for newsrooms. Whereas before…

Generative AI in the Newsroom

Generative AI, Copyright and the #AI Act, my new post on the #KluwerCopyrightBlog

Thanks to Thomas Margoni, Martin Kretchmer Alina Trapova & @ndiakopoulos for comments on earlier versions of this post

https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2023/05/09/generative-ai-copyright-and-the-ai-act/

It's a long post so the TLDR is 👇

Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act - Kluwer Copyright Blog

TLDR   Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive. In particular,... Continue reading

Kluwer Copyright Blog

"In this way we were able to add very useful content to the rule-based auto-generated articles, and augment the articles with insights and explanations presented in the company’s financial reports."

News document summaries in Danish using Open AI Models, published by Ekstra Bladet. With enough tries it works, but still very much a need for human in the loop. New from Tore G. C. Rich on the Generative AI in the Newsroom Blog: https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/summaries-in-danish-with-openai-cbb814a119f2

Document Summaries in Danish with OpenAI - Generative AI in the Newsroom

On Denmark’s most visited news site Ekstrabladet.dk, we publish automatically generated local news articles in Danish as a part of the Platform Intelligence in News (PIN) project. In these…

Generative AI in the Newsroom