Rest of World / Andrew Deck
Rest of World tested ChatGPT in Bengali, Kurdish, and Tamil. It failed. →“Many of these languages are what artificial intelligence researchers call ‘low-resource.’ AI language models are largely trained on data scraped from the internet. While languages like Bengali are some of those most spoken in the world, they are less represented online, so there is less digitized text available to train models tailored to them.”
The Verge / Barbara Krasnoff
What I'm Reading / Phil Lewis
The new Black press →“Outlets like the Kansas City Defender, Capital B, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, The Black Wall Street Times, The Emancipator, Hammer & Hope, The Grio, Scalawag Magazine and more are using social media to grow their audiences and share their stories. They pay homage to the old Black press, which captured the fight for civil rights, equality, and the everyday lives of Black people, accurately and fairly.”
Associated Press / Grant Peck
A Myanmar journalist gets a 20-year sentence for reporting on cyclone’s aftermath, news site says →“The conviction of Sai Zaw Thaike is the latest assault on press freedom and journalists by the country’s military-installed government, which has cracked down heavily on independent media. At least 13 media outlets, including Myanmar Now, have had their media licenses revoked and at least 156 journalists were arrested, about 50 of whom remain detained, according to the local monitoring group Detained Journalists Information. Nearly half of those still in custody have been convicted and sentenced.”
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Marina Adami
News/Media Alliance / Staff
Columbia Journalism Review / Mathew Ingram
The Atlantic / Kaitlyn Tiffany
How telling people to die became normal →“This logic—by which a person can treat everyone around them as so many bits of evidence in some grand conflict—is more characteristic of online life than offline life. But that doesn’t mean that it’s as simple as blaming social media or the algorithm or even the posters and influencer-hustlers who stir up trouble.”
The Washington Post / Terrence McCoy
In U.S., most UFO documentation is classified. Not so in other countries. →“In the United States, the matter of unidentified aerial phenomena has often been treated as a closely guarded government secret. Meanwhile, in Brazil and much of South America, there has been a more relaxed attitude toward the inexplicable, the public’s right to know and the limits of scientific explanation.”
Medill Local News Initiative / Rick Reger
International News Media Association / Jodie Hopperton