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New article from the Brennan Center (co-authored by UW colleague Rachel Moran) on how news deserts leave voters vulnerable to election misinformation. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
NEW: Google's AI Overviews are treating entities from the SCP Foundation — the famously fake fan-fiction universe — as if they're real.
The AI feature often contextualizes SCP entities as actual discoveries while describing made-up SCP records as "official" documents.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
$765 million of your tax dollars being paid to *not* develop wind power.
Just dropped the biggest and baddest thing I’ve ever worked on: 22-minutes documentary into how science is rewritten by corporations and we pay the cost.
Hope you queue it up for your night and give it a watch!
& Oregon journos, watch out because one of my projects is expanding archiving present-day reporting now, as opposed to waiting 200 years to do it.
I'm spending half my hours this summer working on this. It is incredibly satisfying to see the inverse of the editorial production process in editorial preservation.
Journalists, have you ever thought about what will happen to your stories 100, 200 years down the line?
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New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"
www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
