Rob Waugh
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Journalist, content creator, communicator, tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor
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Bill Grueskin
9 months ago
This story is amazing! There's one source -- quoted in the Guardian, BBC, Newsweek et al -- who runs a sex-toy company called Peaches and Screams and provides quotes on everything from how to walk your dog to how to change your pillow. Via
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add a skeleton here at some point
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Vince Filak
9 months ago
How AI โexpert sourcesโ have duped journalists and four tips on how to avoid being the next victim. (h/t
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dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/04/16/h...
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How AI โexpert sourcesโ have duped journalists and four tips on how to avoid being the next victim
When it comes to doing interviews, I always tell students they need to do them in person.ย In response, they often look at me like Iโm asking them to use a teletype machine or some semโฆ
https://dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/04/16/how-ai-expert-sources-have-duped-journalists-and-four-tips-on-how-to-avoid-being-the-next-victim/
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Ron Nussey
9 months ago
Virtual reality: The widely-quoted media experts who are not what they seem great reporting from
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Virtual reality: The widely-quoted media experts who are not what they seem
Press Gazette investigation into the widely-quoted national media experts who either do not exist, or whose credentials have not been checked.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/virtual-reality-the-widely-quoted-media-experts-who-are-not-what-they-seem/
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Ed Zitron
12 months ago
With TikTok shutting down I am taking all my video content back to Plurk
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Gary Marcus
about 1 year ago
๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ณ๐ฑ% ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐๐ฏ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฅ๐-๐๐๐. OpenAI did not disclose this in the video. Sam said they didnโt target the test. Never trust a staged demo. Never trust a product you havenโt tried. Never trust OpenAI.
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The proofreading tool in Google Docs just told me to change 'such as' to 'like'. Clearly this AI has never worked on a newspaper
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The gen alpha/brainrot slang is out of control: my children are singing a song that goes, 'Last rizzmas, I gave you my gyatt'
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Just testing this thing out with a fun fact. I know someone who went on a date with CBeebies icon Mr Tumble
about 1 year ago
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