New York Times / Steven Kurutz
Rest of World / Rest of World
Rest of World launches a global AI election disinformation tracker →“As more than 2 billion people in 50 countries head to the polls this year, AI-generated content is now widely being used to spread misinformation, as well as to confuse and entertain voters. Throughout 2024, Rest of World is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally.”
The Wall Street Journal / Alexandra Bruell
The Atlantic / Richard Stengel
Democracy dies behind paywalls →“In some ways, this creates a philosophical inconsistency. The paywall says, This content is valuable and you have to pay for it. Suspending the paywall in a crisis says, This content is so valuable that you don’t have to pay for it.”
Financial Times / Daniel Thomas and Anna Nicolaou
The New York Times / Kevin Roose
AI has a measurement problem →“Artificial intelligence is too important a technology to be evaluated on the basis of vibes. Until we get better ways of measuring these tools, we won’t know how to use them, or whether their progress should be celebrated or feared.”
404 Media / Jason Koebler
The dystopian future of TV is AI-generated “FAST” garbage →“People will likely watch this for laughs, but this is the present and the future of a business model in which TVs have ceased being rectangles designed to let you watch ad-supported programming that costs a lot to make and have started to become rectangles designed to collect information about you so that you can be fed cheap content and targeted ads.”