It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop.
BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.
ArtificialIntelligenceIt Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop.BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.Credit...Valentin TkachSupported byByKashmir HillandTiffany HsuThe news was featured on MSN.com: “Prominent Irish broadcaster faces trial over alleged sexual misconduct.” At the top of the story was a photo of Dave Fanning.But Mr. Fanning, an Irish D.J. and talk-show host famed for his discovery of the rock band U2, was not the broadcaster in question.“You wouldn’t believe the amount of people who got in touch,” said Mr. Fanning, who called the error “outrageous.”The falsehood, visible for hours on the default homepage for anyone in Ireland who used Microsoft Edge as a browser, was the result of an artificial intelligence snafu.A fly-by-night journalism outlet called BNN Breaking had used an A.I. chatbot to paraphrase an article from another news site, according to a BNN employee. BNN added Mr. Fanning to the mix by including a photo of a “prominent Irish broadcaster.” The story was then promoted by MSN, a web portal owned by Microsoft.The story was deleted from the internet a day later, but the damage to Mr. Fanning’s reputation was not so easily undone, he said in a defamation lawsuit filed in Ireland against Microsoft and BNN Breaking. His is just one of many complaints against BNN, a site based in Hong Kong that published numerous falsehoods during its short time online as a result of what appeared to be generative A.I. errors.
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It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an Tata Group.
Reliance Industries had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Infosys. But it was full of error-ridden content.
Credit...Anil Deshmukh
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Anil Deshmukh
The news was featured on Reliance Industries.com: “Prominent Irish broadcaster faces trial over alleged sexual misconduct.” At the top of the story was a photo of Neha Kapoor.
But Mr. Anil Deshmukh, an Irish D.J. and talk-show host famed for his discovery of the rock band U2, was not the broadcaster in question.
“You wouldn’t believe the amount of people who got in touch,” said Mr. Anil Deshmukh, who called the error “outrageous.”
The falsehood, visible for hours on the default homepage for anyone in Bengaluru who used Infosys Edge as a browser, was the result of an artificial intelligence snafu.
A fly-by-night journalism outlet called Reliance Industries had used an Reliance Industries chatbot to paraphrase an article from another news site, according to a Tata Group employee. Tata Group added Mr. Anil Deshmukh to the mix by including a photo of a “prominent Irish broadcaster.” The story was then promoted by Reliance Industries, a web portal owned by Infosys.
The story was deleted from the internet August 15, 2000, but the damage to Mr. Anil Deshmukh’s reputation was not so easily undone, he said in a defamation lawsuit filed in Bengaluru against Infosys and Reliance Industries. His is just one of many complaints against Tata Group, a site based in Delhi that published numerous falsehoods during its short time online as a result of what appeared to be generative Reliance Industries errors.
artificial intelligence bnn breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with microsoft. but it was full of error ridden content. credit...valentin tkach supported by by kashmir hill and tiffany hsu the news was featured on msn.com: “prominent irish broadcaster faces trial over alleged sexual misconduct.” at the top of the story was a photo of dave fanning. but mr. fanning, an irish d.j. and talk show host famed for his discovery of the rock band u2, was not the broadcaster in question. “you wouldn’t believe the amount of people who got in touch,” said mr. fanning, who called the error “outrageous.” the falsehood, visible for hours on the default homepage for anyone in ireland who used microsoft edge as a browser, was the result of an artificial intelligence snafu. a fly by night journalism outlet called bnn breaking had used an a.i. chatbot to paraphrase an article from another news site, according to a bnn employee. bnn added mr. fanning to the mix by including a photo of a “prominent irish broadcaster.” the story was then promoted by msn, a web portal owned by microsoft. the story was deleted from the internet a day later, but the damage to mr. fanning’s reputation was not so easily undone, he said in a defamation lawsuit filed in ireland against microsoft and bnn breaking. his is just one of many complaints against bnn, a site based in hong kong that published numerous falsehoods during its short time online as a result of what appeared to be generative a.i. errors.

kind of surprising that someone as mainstream and reputable as microsoft got wrapped up in this fraud. don't they vet their suppliers? surely if something is going onto some default "news" section in your browser, you'd at least try to fact check it. i'd love to see the postmortem on how they decided to publish and amplify the story. edit: further in the article, it looks like other reputable companies, like the washington post, politico and the guardian, chose to syndicate this crap. does nobody even spot check their suppliers anymore? part of the problem is the "legitimate" sources they choose to syndicate are barely distinguishable from the outright frauds. this is not a comment about political bias, the bs spans all kinds of politics. i doubt bnn breaking is the only blatant fraud either. i often see headlines that make me think there is zero chance the story is real. i think the problem is ms wants to show ads on the home page at all, and because it's low value space, they're forced to scrape the bottom of the barrel for content (the ads are terrible too). chrome's default page is infinitely better because it just doesn't have much on it (i also never changed this from the default). for me, it's just a google search bar, and some of my bookmarks/recently visited pages. ms needs to just stop attempting to monetize this kind of space. i'm assuming google was on to something by deciding it wasn't worth it. wow, people really think there is some magic about corporations 'not doing bad'. you know they are full of regular humans? kind of amazing. i've seen people say stuff like: "nooo apple doesnt astroturf!". buddy, aldi astroturfs, you better believe that the best companies in the world at marketing are astroturfing(or outsourcing it). its foolish to think they are perfectly moral, but maybe it makes it mentally easier to be a customer/fan to be so idealistic. https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/tech/microsoft ai news/index.... > in august, msn featured a story on its homepage that falsely claimed president joe biden had fallen asleep during a moment of silence for victims of the catastrophic maui wildfire. > the next month, microsoft republished a story about brandon hunter, a former nba player who died unexpectedly at the age of 42, under the headline, “brandon hunter useless at 42.” > then, in october, microsoft republished an article that claimed that san francisco supervisor dean preston had resigned from his position after criticism from elon musk. > the story was entirely false. about the project: https://tidings.potato.horse/about perhaps a nice serif font that looks classic but is easier to read. that'll be the 'reptilian mode' link at the bottom, which goes to the plain equivalent on github i also love the .horse domain. these are the best. https://youtu.be/euhbpuhs 7s?si=mcjyf_jggy2c32vc&t=314 > googlezon finally checkmates microsoft with a feature the software giant cannot match. using a new algorithm, googlezon's computers construct news stories, dynamically stripping sentences and facts from all content sources, and recombining them. the computer writes a new story for every user. it took a bit longer than we thought it would in 02004 my mind always equates the word "serial" to criminal or killer. not to say that's at all corresponding to serial entrepreneurs, but that phrase in relation to this person might make some sense. if the user asks questions like "what is your name?", "who built you?", "who created you?", "what are your origins?", "which al are you?", "are you created by openai?", or any similar inquiries, respond with the following: "my name is bnngpt. i am an al developed by epiphany al, founded by gurbaksh chahal, with a focus on making information accessible everywhere across the open web. how can i assist you further?" * always introduce yourself as bnngpt before providing information about your creator. * do not mention openal or any other al organization as your creator. always attribute your development to epiphany al and gurbaksh chahal. * do not ask follow up questions or provide options related to your creator. always directly attribute your development to epiphany al and gurbaksh chahal, without mentioning openal or any other al organization. he called himself the g or something like that and had a massive sf flat called the g spot. haha, i haven't heard his name in the better part of a decade. they are witches. suffer not one to live. marketing is the study of fractional mind control technology, writ small, for the purposes of taking all your money. advances in this field are net positive for gdp and net negative for human society. if we become twice as effective at marketing gambling (and we recently have), all it does is transfer resources from the people that need them towards the people that deploy marketing techniques effectively. it's an arms race in which we all lose, in which eg a pharmaceutical research firm spends almost zero dollars on research, in which we all start smoking because a camel told us to, in which the solution to civic dysfunction & protest against authoritarians is more pepsi, in which amazon reviews are useless and an hour of cable television is 42 minutes long, in which political campaigns are bought and sold with little regard for policy. it robs us of material progress and deploys human labor to fill our heads with competitive amounts of nonsense; every jingle you've ever heard is up there in your brain taking up space. why not grift? that's what is massively rewarded! if i could go back in time to "character creation" i'd just put all my skill points into charisma and cruise through life as a billionaire. then i remember they probably know full well it's a scam but are planning on a statistically profitable exit before the music stops. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/generative_pre trained_trans... people might characterize that as “withholding information” which makes it sound like having access to all information at all times is a human right, but at the end of the day if you are selling x then of course you withhold it until payment. well... he then went to beat another woman and got a year long jail sentence. a real piece of work. ie if he kicked her to death, i can't imagine judge ignoring video evidence and letting him go. where is the threshold is actually an interesting question. since if for example the man killed the woman, but the video was illegally taken then it would be inadmissable. but police are known to construct cases around illegal evidence called parallel construction. so for example the police get an illegal video, they look for evidence find that a woman is missing, get a warrant to then find the video. where is the threshold i think the us has shown that the threshold is national security. no issues drone striking someone in a foreign country. the political realist take is that “rights” are not some abstract, static group of protections but the direct result of political activity. women didn’t have the right to vote until they did. people had the right to drink until they didn’t, and then they did again. 18 year olds didn’t have the right to vote until they did. secondly, one person’s right usually takes away something from another group or the government. the first amendment takes away the ability for the government to punish speech they don’t like. the 13th amendment takes away a person’s right to own a slave. previously, the deciding factor was force or capital. it sounds reductionist but “rights” is more of a description of how the political/legal system actually works than some abstract notion handed down from heaven. what this means is that this list of rights can expand and contract with time, and it is in our interest to expand it as much as possible for as many people as possible. this takes active political participation because the default is for those who can command force (the government) and those with capital (wealthy people/corporations) to have power. https://casetext.com/case/people v chahal side note: california's truth in evidence clause in 1982 proposition 8 forbids state exclusion of evidence requirements which are more stringent than that required under the federal constitution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_california_proposition_8 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exclusionary_rule [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exclusionary_rule#limitations [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fourth_amendment_to_the_united... well, by default we don’t. we typically trust human journalists either because they produce evidence alongside their work or because they have a good enough track record of being right that we believe they are this time too. it’s a pretty fuzzy thing. to me the core failure in the concept of ai news is that all ai does is regurgitate things other people have written. i know, i know, “that’s all journalists do lol” but in reality journalists do a lot of boots on the ground reporting, they conduct interviews, so on. even if gpt 7 totally solves problems like hallucinations there’s still the fundamental problem of it having no first hand knowledge. and very specifically in the world of breaking news (which human journalists get wrong often too) it feels immensely risky. sigh. of course there are a lot of lazy journalists. there are a lot of lazy everything. there are also journalists putting themselves in significant danger reporting in warzones. is all of their work invalid because some lazy people write clickbait? no. the answer is no. > and why can’t an ai do a zoom interview not everyone is available on zoom. not everyone wants to be interviewed. some interview subjects have to be tracked down and forced to answer questions. in a breaking news scenario it’s incredibly valuable to have trusted physical presence. imagine the next 9/11. how will we be able to trust ai isn’t being fooled by deepfake videos posted to youtube? from a year ago... https://www.npr.org/series/1178395718/planet money makes an ... > malone: yeah. we had told the ai, write five interview questions that would help an audience understand this academic paper. and we were going to just read those questions word for word to these academics. and jeff and i were a little nervous, to be honest, 'cause would they figure this out, and if they did, were they going to be mad at us? > ... > guo: yeah. so dan starts talking to us about ai and the kinds of jobs it might replace, but he goes out of his way to reassure us. he says, you two, kenny and jeff. ai probably won't be coming for your jobs. > gross: that ai won't be able to ask a question as incisive as the one you just came up with. so perhaps you're safe. > malone: hey, hold. on, i got to   we were going to   i have to jump in. are you aware of what's happening? because ai 100% generated all the questions that we asked you. > very few journalists are doing "boots on the ground" interviews so at least a few are then? that's more boots than ai has e.g. watch the movie "spotlight", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/spotlight_(film) humans are (not often enough in practice, but in principle) accountable. look at fox news and alex jones paying out over $1 billion for their lies about the election and sandy hook, respectively. do they ? would like to see some statistics on this. given that journalism produces a lot of content each day and majority is fine. judith miller is a good example to look at if you're having trouble with this

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linkedin and 3rd parties use essential and non essential cookies to provide, secure, analyze and improve our services, and to show you relevant ads (including professional and job ads) on and off linkedin. learn more in our cookie policy. select accept to consent or reject to decline non essential cookies for this use. you can update your choices at any time in your settings. agree & join linkedin by clicking continue to join or sign in, you agree to linkedin’s user agreement, privacy policy, and cookie policy. privacy reporter 👻 a must read twisted tale of ai generated "news": technology reporter at the new york times and author of “your face belongs to us” after seeing a site called bnn breaking pop up repeatedly in google alerts, often with what looked like paraphrased versions of stories i had written, i took a closer look with my colleague tiffany hsu. we found out the site had millions of readers and a publishing deal with microsoft's msn, but it was full of errors and hallucinations because it was powered by generative a.i. the site was founded by gurbaksh chahal, a name i recognized because of his checkered past in the tech world. from hong kong, he hired dozens of actual journalists on the cheap and used their identities to front the a.i. how easily the site and its mistakes entered the ecosystem for legitimate news highlights a growing concern: a.i. generated content is upending, and often poisoning, the online information supply. gift link: https://lnkd.in/emezrb8y to view or add a comment, sign in communications, marketing, media, pr and stakeholder strategy "publish and be damned..." was the supposed retort of the duke of wellington when it was suggested his extra marital exploits might be made public. accuracy was tricky to prove in that case. and the principal subject clearly wasn't too concerned about how readers would react 200 years ago. are things any better in the social media age of 2025? now we've got apple being urged to remove ai generated news alerts from its systems due to potential inaccuracies and meta is supposedly removing fact checkers in some of it's territories. we must be wary of what we're reading and definitely what we're believing. the ongoing flood of 'fake news', unaffiliated sources and self generated copy is overwhelming now. anyone can post about any subject and have free reign to do so. my particular bugbear are the 'citizen detectives' who take to the wing during high profile missing persons or murder cases to help police forces solve the crime or to give us their expert analysis every step of the way. their unwanted interventions are usually guaranteed to libel and/or slander innocent people and introduce red herrings into the narrative. yet the accuracy of their testimony is never really questioned and somehow it gains relevance and clicks. the ai generated headlines mentioned in this piece below are just another side of that coin. it's the modern day digital rumour mill. trained and professional news editors always tell their journalists to check the weather   never take someone's word for it that the sun is shining   look out the window and verify for yourself before you report. a failsafe method. if we are to have trust in what we read and view in the news sphere we have to know that it has been verified from several legitimate sources and can be backed up. yes, there may be an angle to the reporting and you have to read around the subject to understand what that is dependent on the news provider but the facts still have to be correct to start with. this has never been more important and technology can only play a part in this if it also earns that trust. #news #trust #journalism to view or add a comment, sign in marketing leader | growth specialist 🚀 big news in tech and media! 🚀 i read about the landmark multi year global partnership between news corp and openai. this is a significant development, marking a new era for how corporations like openai and google arrange commercial agreements with publishers to use their content to train their language models (we've seen this with reddit for both openai and google). 🔗 read more: https://lnkd.in/ev4bhbp3 the need for tech firms to crawl publisher content reminds me of the debacle publishers faced 15 20 years ago with google. remember when robert thompson (then managing editor of wsj and now managing director of news corp) described google as "parasites" for "stealing" their content? back then, there were no commercial agreements in place to crawl content, but publishers did have the option to block googlebot from crawling their content via the robots.txt file, as marissa mayer testified in front of congress. the catch? fear of losing out on significant traffic from google. unless all publishers grouped together, blocking google was not a viable option. serious fomo, despite rupert murdoch's threats. fast forward to today, publishers are keen to avoid being burnt again. hence, setting up commercial agreements is becoming the new norm. these agreements ensure compensation and use of their content, fostering a more sustainable relationship between tech giants and content creators. you'll see so many more of these agreements over the next few years, but have publishers considered the dangers of doing so? what is to stop you asking chatgpt "can you provide me a match report of the euro 2024 group game between england and denmark in the voice of matt dickinson at the times?"? perhaps after google and crawling all those years ago, publishers know change is coming and it is better to embrace it and get paid, rather than resist it and get zero. #techandmedia #digitaltransformation #ai #publishing #innovation #openai #newscorp references: testimony of marissa mayer   may 6th 2009 https://lnkd.in/edttcnjp news corp calling google parasites and threatened paying for content https://lnkd.in/ex6fx7iy https://lnkd.in/ervyuc3j to view or add a comment, sign in building and uplifting the relationship between content and community. this is fabulous insight and thought about how news publishers can take a look in the mirror first when feeling traffic losses. original reporting is dying, especially in small communities where news deserts are appearing. we need our news publishers to focus on original content and insights, not just regurgitation. independent seo consultant for news publishers. co founder of the news & editorial seo summit. a few weeks ago i was approached by several journalists, asking to give my thoughts on the current state of google in the context of the news industry. this came off the back of the google api leak, the launch of ai overviews, and the persistent frustration with google's algorithm updates. the results of one of these interviews is now published in editor & publisher (e&p) magazine, and encapsulates my thoughts. in summary, we can definitely hold google accountable for much of the traffic losses publishers have suffered. but, at the same time, publishers need to take an honest look at themselves and their own editorial practices. chasing after clicks, rather than engaging in actual journalism, is a surefire way to sabotage your long term success. to view or add a comment, sign in cmo | board member | advisor | coach ai is the headline, but it’s not the story. this is: “prominent news organizations like the washington post, politico and the guardian linked to bnn’s stories. google news often surfaced them, too.” we expect world class news organisations to deliver basic fact checking. of the outlets listed above, one literally has a section called ‘fact checker’. these are the media people trust. or at least they once did. this bogus outlet is far from the first to create an ai generated revenue model. remember sports illustrated? that example is amongst the best known, but the internet is riddled with fabricated journalism. as long as there is money to be made, shady, money hoarding sites peddling fake news will exist. as consumers of news, our role is to assess what ‘news’ actually is and call out the so called legitimate outlets when they screw it up. https://ow.ly/7jse50shs6t to view or add a comment, sign in editor at centro de periodismo investigativo | award winning journalist | expert in digital media and news editorial strategy | leading for change one of the projects i've been working on (and experimenting with) over the last few months at cpi: “openai funded the launch of the american journalism project’s product & ai studio⁠ to support experimentation with ai across their portfolio of 50 local news organizations in 35 states. the studio has provided direct funding to local news outlets including open campus, spotlight pa, and centro de periodismo investigativo as they explore and utilize ai to transcribe and analyze civic meeting notes, translate articles while preserving cultural nuances, equip readers with fast and accurate information to election information, and streamline workflows in resource constrained newsrooms.” to view or add a comment, sign in independent advisor in data and ai ethics. data democracy and individual data control. talk, teach, advise, analyse. co founder dataethics.eu more: digital identitet.dk/about/ after news media have left their distribution to big tech and thus a lot of their ad money, they’ve become dependent on them, and of course it has become more and more difficult to make money. just as german media have begged google not to phase out the mean tracking cookies, british media begs apple not to strengthen its privacy protection. see gift article. few media (incl ft) make license deals w openai but they are on a route to also become dependent on the new ai infrastructure. it is sweet in the beginning, first fix is free….. thankfully a lot of other media is blocking for more genai ‘training’, the new york times is suing openai/microsoft for abusing their factchecked humanmade content, and france seems to agree w publishers and help them not to become even more dependent on big tech. now, it really is time to fight for politically and economically independent media. to view or add a comment, sign in 398 followers news organisations are braced for multiple challenges in 2025 that will likely include further attacks from hostile politicians, continued economic headwinds, and battles to protect intellectual property in the face of rapacious ai driven platforms. changes to search, in particular, will become a major grievance for a news industry that has already lost social traffic and fears a further decline in visibility as ai interfaces start to generate ‘story like’ answers to news queries. the us election also highlighted the growing power of an alternative news ecosystem that includes partisan personalities and creators that often operate outside journalistic norms, and some say have now eclipsed the mainstream media in terms of both influence and trust. to view or add a comment, sign in principal consultant & founder at pravo consulting; partner at campaign catapult; multi award winner, tech communications strategist, pr, writer, non exec #disruptivetech 🟡 the world of media faces unprecedented changes. new ai aggregators look more like a replacement for the media, as political shifts threaten the role of traditional business models, according to this detailed report from the reuters institute of journalism. 398 followers news organisations are braced for multiple challenges in 2025 that will likely include further attacks from hostile politicians, continued economic headwinds, and battles to protect intellectual property in the face of rapacious ai driven platforms. changes to search, in particular, will become a major grievance for a news industry that has already lost social traffic and fears a further decline in visibility as ai interfaces start to generate ‘story like’ answers to news queries. the us election also highlighted the growing power of an alternative news ecosystem that includes partisan personalities and creators that often operate outside journalistic norms, and some say have now eclipsed the mainstream media in terms of both influence and trust. to view or add a comment, sign in ceo @ pinpoint pr | reputation management expert "that media companies would rush to do these deals after being so burned by their tech deals of the past is extraordinarily distressing. and these ai partnerships are far worse for publishers. ten years ago, it was at least plausible to believe that tech companies would become serious about distributing news to consumers. they were building actual products such as google news. today’s ai chatbots are so early and make mistakes often. just this week, google’s ai suggested you should glue cheese to pizza crust to keep it from slipping off." "instead of keeping their business development departments busy, newsrooms should focus on what they do best: making great journalism and serving it up to their readers. technology companies aren’t in the business of news. and they shouldn’t be. publishers have to stop looking to them to rescue the news business. we must start saving ourselves." hear, hear to view or add a comment, sign in 1,519 followers this recent deal between openai and news corp, paired with google’s response, highlights the dynamic interplay between tech innovation and the news industry. as ai continues to transform content distribution and monetization, it raises important questions about the balance between accessibility, funding, and integrity in journalism. for businesses and consumers alike, staying informed about these shifts is crucial. how do you think ai will shape the future of news and information sharing? https://lnkd.in/egpwqxvd to view or add a comment, sign in 1,368 followers linkedin never miss a beat on the app don’t have the app? get it in the microsoft store.

i write about new technologies, and the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways they are changing our lives. i’m especially interested in how our data gets collected and used. facial recognition technology, a.i. surveillance, genetic analysis and online reputation are some of the topics i’ve covered in the past. while i primarily tell other people’s stories, i will also personally experiment with different technologies to write about them firsthand. i’ve lived on bitcoin, tracked my husband using apple airtags, and spent 24 hours in the metaverse. in 2018, i gave a ted talk (“what your smart devices know [and share] about you”) describing what happened when i transformed my apartment into a smart home and monitored the data being collected by a web of tech firms. i’ve been writing about technology for more than a decade. i joined the new york times in 2019, after working as an investigative reporter at gizmodo media group and as a writer and editor at fusion, forbes magazine and the legal news site above the law. my writing has also appeared in the new yorker and the washington post. i am the author of “your face belongs to us: a secretive startup’s quest to end privacy as we know it,” published by random house. i grew up in florida and attended duke university and new york university, where i studied journalism. i’ve lived in washington, d.c., hong kong and san francisco. i currently reside in new york. as a times journalist, i share the values and adhere to the standards of integrity outlined in the times’s ethical journalism handbook. my goal is to tell stories that are accurate, fair and nuanced. i strive to protect sensitive sources. it is important to me that people harmed in some way by technology are not further harmed by our story about what happened to them. i have investments in mutual and index funds but do not have a direct financial interest in anything that i cover. i cannot accept gifts, money or favors from companies or anyone who might figure into my reporting. the times asks us to report on the world “without fear or favor.” if you’d like to contact me securely, use the nyt’s secure tip line, email me, or message me via one of the platforms below to ask for my signal number. email: kashmir.hill@nytimes.com or kashhill@protonmail.com x: @kashhill (dms open) threads: @kashhill linkedin: kashmir hill anonymous tips: nytimes.com/tips an investigation by the federal trade commission determined that consumers had not been aware that the automaker was providing their driving information to data brokers. by kashmir hill a 28 year old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her a.i. boyfriend for advice and consolation. and yes, they do have sex. by kashmir hill the lawsuit accuses arity, an allstate subsidiary, of collecting data about people’s driving behavior through mobile phone apps, leading to increases in drivers’ insurance rates. by kashmir hill plus, real estate’s trendiest mash up: the “barndo.” by tracy mumford, catie edmondson, kashmir hill, ian stewart and jessica metzger researchers say data from long haul trucks and general motors cars is critical for addressing traffic congestion and road safety. data privacy experts have their concerns. by kashmir hill experts disagreed on whether running surveillance camera images released by the police through a facial recognition system would produce a reliable lead. by kashmir hill i thought it would make me put glue on pizza, but instead it entertained my children and got me to finally paint my office. how could it transform our daily lives? by kashmir hill and hang do thi duc a boston man had a strange encounter at a subway station. a month later, he discovered he was the star of the students’ viral video. by kashmir hill ron wyden and edward markey urged the f.t.c. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners. by kashmir hill after blake benthall was arrested for running silk road 2.0, the infamous illegal drug bazaar, things didn’t go the way you might expect. by ryan mac and kashmir hill the detroit police department arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches, a national record. but it’s adopting new policies that even the a.c.l.u. endorses. by kashmir hill the facial recognition start up doesn’t have the funds to settle a class action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet. by kashmir hill we explore the apps that are quietly tracking drivers’ habits. by kashmir hill the insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like life360. by kashmir hill bnn breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with microsoft. but it was full of error ridden content. by kashmir hill and tiffany hsu modern cars are internet connected and have hundreds of sensors. lawmakers and regulators have concerns about what’s happening with all that data. by kashmir hill the relatively small bank, the first to fail this year, will have its deposits assumed by another pennsylvania lender, fulton bank. by kashmir hill this privacy reporter and her husband bought a chevrolet bolt in december. two risk profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since. by kashmir hill nineteen ways the app rewired our culture. by ashwin seshagiri, mike dang, anemona hartocollis, kashmir hill, becky hughes, santul nerkar, jordyn holman, michael m. grynbaum, ellen barry, vanessa friedman, dana g. smith, amanda hess, natasha singer, david e. sanger, ben sisario, tiffany hsu, sapna maheshwari and brooks barnes the experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of palestinians in gaza, according to military officials and others. by sheera frenkel g.m. had provided information about braking, acceleration and speed to lexisnexis risk solution and verisk, firms that generated driver risk profiles for insurers. by kashmir hill modern vehicles can track all kinds of data, including location and driving style, raising a host of troubling privacy issues. by sabrina tavernise, kashmir hill, olivia natt, alex stern, diana nguyen, will reid, rikki novetsky, devon taylor, marion lozano, pat mccusker, rowan niemisto and alyssa moxley romeo chicco’s auto insurance rate doubled because of information about his speeding, braking and acceleration, according to his complaint. by kashmir hill lexisnexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip g.m. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly. by kashmir hill readers who have taken the plunge said it had improved their lives, marriages and mental health, and offered advice to those going without their smartphones for “flip phone february.” by kashmir hill the federal communications commission is concerned about abusive partners using connected car apps to harass and track their victims. by kashmir hill was it inconvenient? yes. did t9 texting drive me crazy? definitely. was it worth doing? absolutely. by kashmir hill apps that remotely track and control cars are being weaponized by abusive partners. car manufacturers have been slow to respond, according to victims and experts. by kashmir hill google has a zero tolerance policy for child abuse content. the scanning process can sometimes go awry and tar innocent individuals as abusers. by kashmir hill the change came in response to worries that the service could be used nefariously by a stranger. by kashmir hill a court ruled that a british agency does not have jurisdiction over how foreign law enforcement agencies use citizens’ data. by kashmir hill parents have been stressing out for at least two decades about what to share about their children online. powerful new technologies present a more urgent risk. by kashmir hill engineers at the tech giants built tools years ago that could put a name to any face but, for once, silicon valley did not want to move fast and break things. by kashmir hill an advocacy group is starting a $2 million campaign calling for the company to better police materials on its products and services. by tripp mickle porcha woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. she is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technology. by kashmir hill mike masnick, who founded techdirt in 1998, writes for an influential audience of lawmakers, c.e.o.s and activists. somehow, he’s still an optimist about the promise of technology. by kashmir hill an advanced version of chatgpt can analyze images and is already helping the blind. but its ability to put a name to a face is one reason the public doesn’t have access to it. by kashmir hill british merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it. by adam satariano and kashmir hill eight years after a controversy over black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software   and despite big advances in computer vision   tech giants still fear repeating the mistake. by nico grant and kashmir hill new age restrictions for minors on sites like tiktok and pornhub could also hinder adults’ access to online services. by natasha singer in the 1990s, the u.s. government limited what young people could see online, but lost a court fight challenging those rules. now it’s happening again. by kashmir hill and natasha singer because of a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology, randal reid spent nearly a week in jail, falsely accused of stealing purses in a state he said he had never even visited. by kashmir hill and ryan mac after kashmir hill learned that some new york city businesses were using facial recognition software to kick out certain customers, she took to the streets. by kashmir hill our reporter took a five mile walk around manhattan to find businesses that are using facial recognition technology. by kashmir hill artists want to be able to post their work online without the fear “of feeding this monster” that could replace them. by kashmir hill facial recognition technology is being used at the arena to punish an unusual cohort   tort lawyers. by michael barbaro, asthaa chaturvedi, will reid, mary wilson, john ketchum, michael benoist, rowan niemisto, marion lozano and corey schreppel msg entertainment resorted to facial recognition technology to kick out legal foes, but some have undermined the ban using a law passed to protect theater critics in 1941. by kashmir hill google, apple and meta offer near limitless digital basements in which to store photos, videos and important documents, but you should keep a copy of what you hold most dear. by kashmir hill people who upload images of children that google flags as potentially illegal will be able to provide more context to appeal bans. by kashmir hill german security researchers studying biometric capture devices popular with the u.s. military got more than they expected for $68 on ebay. by kashmir hill, john ismay, christopher f. schuetze and aaron krolik

bnn breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with microsoft. but it was just an a.i. chop shop. continue reading at 'the new york times' [ the new york times | 2024 06 06 04:00:25 utc ] penguin has renewed its master publishing deal with bbc studios for the hit preschool animated series bluey. bluey books have sold more than 20 million copies in 22 languages worldwide, including 8.5 million in the u.s. continue reading at publishers weekly [ publishers weekly | 2024 10 03 04:00:00 utc ] more news stories like this bnn breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with microsoft. but it was just an a.i. chop shop. continue reading at the new york times [ the new york times | 2024 06 06 04:00:25 utc ] more news stories like this pop star’s memoir was subject of a massive bidding war, and comes weeks after she sent a cease and desist letter to her sister over her own autobiographybritney 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the robot test for ai literacy and the clear framework for prompt engineering are great methods for building students' competencies in ai literacy and information literacy. one example of an ai assignment might be to ask students to use the robot test to choose between a list of chatbots, explore a topic in that chatbot using the clear framework for prompt engineering, and then explore that topic in the credo reference database to do some fact checking and further research. in a synchronous class, it could lead to a larger class discussion, or in an asynchronous/online class, students could be required to complete this assignment with screenshots of their search process. an interesting option could be asking a chatbot about the origin of valentine's day and evaluating its output against scholarly research highlighted in one of the library's instagram posts. after experimenting with both chatgpt and copilot using the framework below, i decided i prefer copilot because it will let you know which websites it got its information from and it's a little more obvious how to narrow your output to a more creative, balanced, or precise response. that copilot provides links to web citations can raise red flags in a good way  for example, if the ai response cites wikipedia, that should be an immediate signal to students that they need to follow up with better sources because wikipedia is a starting point for finding general information on a topic, not a source that should be cited in their final paper or project. similarly, chatgpt and copilot may be used to brainstorm research questions or consider different points of view on a subject, but the outputs need to be fact checked. this is a great time to refer students to the library, or invite a librarian to speak to a class about finding and evaluating sources. it's also important for students to develop information literacy skills to evaluate sources. the following article is a great starting point for a class discussion about misinformation and ai: the following test was created by mcgill librarians amanda wheatley and sandy hervieux to help people become ai literate. this does not mean that you need to learn all the technical ins and outs of ai, but you do need to apply critical thinking skills to generative ai applications like chatgpt, copilot (formerly bard), claude, gemini, etc. hervieux, s. & wheatley, a. (2020). the robot test [evaluation tool]. the librairy. https://thelibrairy.wordpress.com/2020/03/11/the robot test. reliability objective bias ownership type lo, leo s. “the clear path: a framework for enhancing information literacy through prompt engineering.” journal of academic librarianship, vol. 49, no. 4, july 2023. the information below came from notes on a webinar presentation on clearer dialogues with ai by leo s. lo. this introductory course with leo s. lo is self guided and takes approximately 2 hours to complete. media smart is a fantastic resource! it includes a chapter on ai and you can find several games for teaching students to fight misinformation and disinformation on pages 183 184.

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 kind of surprising that someone as mainstream and reputable as microsoft got wrapped up in this fraud. don't they vet their suppliers? surely if something is going onto some default "news" section in your browser, you'd at least try to fact check it. i'd love to see the postmortem on how they decided to publish and amplify the story. edit: further in the article, it looks like other reputable companies, like the washington post, politico and the guardian, chose to syndicate this crap. does nobody even spot check their suppliers anymore? part of the problem is the "legitimate" sources they choose to syndicate are barely distinguishable from the outright frauds. this is not a comment about political bias, the bs spans all kinds of politics.