Among the many reasons newsrooms ought to have clear ethical guidelines around the use of AI... (cc: @alexmahadevan.com) The journalistic benefits of doing something like this (are there any?) pretty clearly do not outweigh all the negatives (i.e., confusing and annoying your audience).

Well, Google's whole Gemini SynthID AI detector is certainly not working. AND a hallucinated interview!

If anyone thinks brain rot is something new, please check out Pomplamoose

Yoooo @murderxbryan.bsky.social, Ryan Lizza hit Olivia Nuzzi with a Guys classic

Really embarrassing stuff!!

Hell yeah BCHC

✨New working paper on the trade-offs involved in AI transparency in news 🤖📝 Based on a case study of the @financialtimes.com, Liz Lohn and I argue that transparency about AI in news is a spectrum, evolving with tech, commercial, professional & ethical considerations & audience attitudes.

Things are incredibly bleak, but I take solace in knowing I am alive at the same time as the mountain goats

Nick Fuentes, according to Wikipedia (left) and “Grokipedia” (right) Really twisting itself in knots to not call a nazi a nazi

/to the tune of "Buffalo Soldier" Mencius Moldbug

Super cool data on what people saw on their phone during the 2024 US elections: "On an average day, the median individual saw the terms ‘Donald Trump’, ‘Joe Biden’, and ‘Kamala Harris’ on their phone for only 3 seconds." www.guyaridor.net/files/digita...

I wrote about the importance of silliness and inflatable frogs lni.media/p/the-frog-r...

If anything signals that we are truly watching the U.S. crumbling in real time, it’s an AI video of MLK promoting crypto on a fully AI slop platform. Fake, dying empire

No time to read the long version of our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social research on use & views around GenAI, information, and news in 6 countries? Then read the summary, just out with @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

The Free Press paying to promote the dumbest hot takes imaginable on Reddit lol

lol

Seeing all the Bob Ross videos on Sora 2 is particularly revolting when you know about the war over his likeness after his death, and what his family went though

GOOD MORNING TWO NEW MOUNTAIN GOATS SONGS ONE WHERE ME AND PETER BALKAN AND ADAM START CALCULATING HOW TO SURVIVE AFTER A SHIPWRECK & ONE WHERE ADAM EXITS STAGE LEFT NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN 30tgrs.ffm.to/coldatnight-...

My experience with Tyler Cowen is from Econ grad school, when every smart professor would roll their eyes at every insane new blog he released. OG rage baiter and Econ oversimplifier

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High praise from the TRUE master of all this

New on @indicator.media: Almost all major platforms have promised to label AI content on their services, but it can be hard to keep track of who said they do what and how. I collected information for 8 different platforms in one nifty table, that we will keep updating.

What’s Sora 2 like, you ask? Well, got to see SpongeBob as Hitler

“But they’re all criminals for coming here illegally.” Being undocumented in the United States is a civil infraction. If someone is undocumented, without having committed any other crimes, they’re not a criminal. Here's important facts to combat ICE talking points: lni.media/p/how-to-tal...

doing news videos is really a catch-22: if you are good at it, top brass think it's easy and try to replicate cheaply it without your help (i.e. WP never once asked for my help with Ventures) if you're bad at it, or it's not working, they shut all of it down without trying to fix it

we're suing ICE, and your support makes this fight possible: www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

props to @usatoday.com's new chatbot for entertaining my query about god punishing dabo swinney

“One of these days I’m going to follow through on the Clav threat.” Thank you @themountaingoats.bsky.social for a joyful respite from this hell we’re living in.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

“When you exit a big company and you start your own thing, there's no going back,” veteran media reporter Oliver Darcy told Poynter Report Podcast host Tom Jones. “You are on your own. It's sink or swim. And that's a daunting feeling for sure. “ Watch the full episode: poynter.org/commentary/2...

Just realized I am 1/1 on Meta's Community Notes

AI is so awesome

Benny Johnson has a long history of bending the truth or flat-out lying to fit a narrative. I had the bad luck of working with him for two years. He’s a bad person with no moral compass.

Finally buying @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI, and someone's selling an AI-generated rip-off of it. Amazon is so cooked

lol they’re asking GPT 5 for a eulogy cc @drewharwell.com

Was looking for a local news story based on a convo I had with a park ranger in WNC and came across the strangest phrase I’ve ever read. Competing with real local news!!

I wrote about Ichiro as a player, a legend, and a stand-up comic. I don't imagine it'll spoil anything for me to say here that I think he's the coolest and most interesting baseball player I've ever seen. defector.com/ichiro-saved...

Normal weather

So glad for the chance to talk about media literacy and our current news environment with Lisa Ann Pinkerton on Earthlings 2.0, The Podcast. Thanks for having me! www.linkedin.com/posts/earthl...

This is awful. But I’m still upset about the fake Unicorns reunion album

It is a very scary time to be a brown guy in America

I may sound like a boomer, but I do feel like it’s bad that <25s are taking Hims for all sorts of vanity related maladies, injecting testosterone and chewing on rubber balls

Are you exploring #AI issues and #ethics in journalism? We have two pages full of resources for you on The Journalist's Toolbox Guides and article: journaliststoolbox.ai/ai-tools-and... Ethics/law: journaliststoolbox.ai/ai-and-ethics/

I kinda sorta got the dril “racism dial” tweet into @politifact.bsky.social 😎 www.politifact.com/article/2025...

Linda Yaccarino cites Community Notes among two "groundbreaking innovations" X undertook on her watch. The only problem: It was up and running well before she or Elon Musk took over.

Podcast: The Life Changing Power of Lifting 🔗 www.404media.co/404-media-po...

My new issue: The @politifact.bsky.social bot I built is so desperate to fact-check tweets using PolitiFact links that it's started making them up!