Press Gazette: PR industry alarmed at rise of fake commenters exposed by Press Gazette. “Press Gazette’s investigation into fake experts being widely quoted in the national press has prompted a huge reaction from the PR industry. Meanwhile various publishers are understood to be reviewing content and policies in the wake of the story, and the BBC has removed one article altogether from its […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/10/press-gazette-pr-industry-alarmed-at-rise-of-fake-commenters-exposed-by-press-gazette/

Behind the Numbers: LIVE TRACKER: GenAI in media – 70+ tools and products from around the world (in English and in Finnish). “…in this blog you can now find an updating list of GenAI tools and products in media, both in English and in Finnish. My name is Kalle Pirhonen, a Finnish media Analyst ( who is soon switching from the Finnish Broadcasting Company to Sanoma Media Finland to work as […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/24/live-tracker-genai-in-media-70-tools-and-products-from-around-the-world-in-english-and-in-finnish-behind-the-numbers/

Link: In Nürnberg könnte eine Teststrecke für eine Magnetschwebebahn entstehen, trotz politischer Kontroversen. Ministerpräsident Söder unterstützt das Projekt, während die Diskussion über die Umsetzung weitergeht. #Nürnberg #Magnetschwebebahn #Verkehrspolitik #aigenerated https://youtube.com/watch?v=wnCaFTPyxNQ&si=NQXHxUXrzxqJUaAS

Digitaltrends: Our reliance on AI-generated news could lead to more bank runs, per new report. “Fake news reports and disinformation campaigns driven by generative AI pose a significant risk to causing bank runs, according to a new study out of the U.K. Per the research firm, Say No to Disinfo, and communications company Fenimore Harper, generative AI systems can easily be leveraged to create […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/16/digitaltrends-our-reliance-on-ai-generated-news-could-lead-to-more-bank-runs-per-new-report/

Deutsche Welle: Kenya’s digital struggle: AI, activism and crackdowns . “A silent war is unfolding in Kenya, not on the streets but in the vast, uncharted world of the internet. Kenya’s digital landscape is at a breaking point, as the government clamps down on AI-generated content and social media activism, igniting what many have described as a ticking time bomb of online resistance.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/07/kenyas-digital-struggle-ai-activism-and-crackdowns-deutsche-welle/

Gizmodo: Quartz’s New AI Slop Is Regurgitated AI Slop. “The Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, a generative AI writer, has churned out 20 stories today so far. To do this it digests the news from a wide range of sources, including local news affiliates, Reuters, and NPR broadcasts, before regurgitating it back in a flaccid form. Some of its sources are themselves generated using AI. So AI slop […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/29/gizmodo-quartzs-new-ai-slop-is-regurgitated-ai-slop/

And also the mild sense of nausea with all the #AIGenerated imagery, FFS

One of my roles at the moment is marking undergraduate assignments, specifically policy briefs

There is little more demoralising in this role than opening yet another #AIGenerated flurb of words with no citations, or fake citations, or citations that bear little resemblance to the text they are associated with

Yes, I am checking

Because its not fair on the #students who do the work themselves

#teaching #academia

CNN: Apple is pulling its AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines . “Apple is temporarily pulling its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news notifications after it repeatedly sent users error-filled headlines, sparking backlash from a news organization and press freedom groups.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/17/cnn-apple-is-pulling-its-ai-generated-notifications-for-news-after-generating-fake-headlines/

NiemanLab: Dow Jones negotiates AI usage agreements with nearly 4,000 news publishers. “Last month, Factiva announced it had signed generative AI usage agreements with nearly 4,000 publishers around the world. The agreements are for the business intelligence platform and news database, which houses articles by online outlets, newspapers, magazines, and transcripts of radio shows. Among the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/06/niemanlab-dow-jones-negotiates-ai-usage-agreements-with-nearly-4000-news-publishers/