20 Myths and Misconceptions About Artificial Intelligence in Journalism www.linkedin.com/pulse/20-myt...

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.

Color, with all its attendant theories, is one of the most basic components of art-making. Color charts are behind it all.

Introducing TAM-J: Towards a situated understanding of AI acceptance in journalism ohmybox.info/introducing-...

"A finished essay can be produced by a machine. A defence of the essay’s argument under questioning cannot (...) Oral examination, viva-style assessment, and in-class supervised writing should return as the spine of any qualification that claims to certify thinking" www.uib.no/en/infomedia...

Dear predatory journals that spam me at least ten times a day: I am not researching psychology, medicine, geology, biology, pharmacology, nursing, dentistry, neuroscience, agronomy, physics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics... In short: I am not researching anything you think I’m researching.

Was ist Slopaganda? Wie unterscheidet sie sich von klassischer Propaganda? Und was macht sie mit uns? Das und mehr beantwortet @bildoperationen.bsky.social alle 2 Wochen hier: www.woz.ch/kolumnen/202...

"Restoration is possible, but not by nostalgia" – Luciano #Floridi on #AI, #information space, and #education www.uib.no/en/infomedia...

It's critical for independent researchers and oversight bodies to be able to thoroughly assess and audit chatbot behavior, D&S researcher @briana-v.bsky.social says; right now AI labs are “grading their own homework.” spectrum.ieee.org/mental-healt...

Untrusted uses: The new frontier in AI-assisted fact-checking ohmybox.info/untrusted-us...

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

I will be presenting our new paper, which evaluates prompting techniques for non-experts in computer science. Here are some key takeaways from the results "Strategic Simplicity Gets the Most: Evaluating Prompting Techniques in Non-Expert AI-Assisted Fact-Checking" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Journalists' work is strongly related to telling the truth about things. Remove that link to truth and journalism is dead" (Karen Sanders, Ethics & Journalism, 2003)

Covid 2.0_2026 / Désinformations et manipulations / Le réseau de bots du Kremlin diffuse des vidéos, des images et des infos déguisées en vrai contenus médiatiques sur la menace d'une pandémie d'hantavirus

#Poland: Ringier Axel Springer plans to cut its workforce by almost 12% citing Big Tech's refusal to compensate media for using their content as the reason. This could result in 160 job losses, despite company's significant profits in 2024. We call for fewer layoffs and fairer solutions to be found.

L’usage sans confiance : la nouvelle frontière du fact-checking assisté par IA ohmybox.info/lusage-sans-...

Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this! jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...

Yes, master. "A new article published in Nature sheds new light on how state media control can influence LLM outputs, with a particular focus on China." techpolicy.press/language-mod...

Untrusted uses: The new frontier in AI-assisted fact-checking ohmybox.info/untrusted-us...

L’usage sans confiance : la nouvelle frontière du fact-checking assisté par IA ohmybox.info/lusage-sans-...

📢 New research alert A new article “Strategic Simplicity Gets the Most: Evaluating Prompting Techniques in Non-Expert AI-Assisted Fact-Checking” (Dierickx, Opdahl & Lindén) is now published. 🧠 Key takeaway: when non-experts use LLMs for fact-checking, simpler prompts outperform complex ones. 1/4

📣 New publication! Using It but Not Trusting It: Technology Acceptance and Generative AI in European Fact-Checking This study (47 fact-checkers across 24 European countries) shows that generative AI is mainly used for secondary, efficiency-oriented tasks, while trust in outputs remains limited. 1/3

📣 New publication! Using It but Not Trusting It: Technology Acceptance and Generative AI in European Fact-Checking This study (47 fact-checkers across 24 European countries) shows that generative AI is mainly used for secondary, efficiency-oriented tasks, while trust in outputs remains limited. 1/3

📢 New research alert A new article “Strategic Simplicity Gets the Most: Evaluating Prompting Techniques in Non-Expert AI-Assisted Fact-Checking” (Dierickx, Opdahl & Lindén) is now published. 🧠 Key takeaway: when non-experts use LLMs for fact-checking, simpler prompts outperform complex ones. 1/4

Why Companies That Choose AI Augmentation Over Automation May Win in the Long Run hbr.org/2026/04/why-...

NEW project: a #dataviz of #Eurovision lyrics. The question: was "do #ESC lyrics follow world news"? TL;DR sort of, but not quite :-) The result is this #scrollytelling article, inspired by @puddingviz.bsky.social 's style. Methodology and code linked. puntofisso.net/eurovision/

What so many have experienced personally has been confirmed by a new study: AI has been a disaster for working artists.

🚨Publication Alert! Led superbly by @greennail.bsky.social, this new paper examines which journalistic cultural orientations an LLM reflects. We compared GPT-4o's responses to Qs from the Worlds of Journalism Study survey with those of journalists in the US, UK & Germany: doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Humans are the Danger, Not AI - A Review of Shannon Vallor’s The AI Mirror jeet.ieet.org/index.php/ho...

Local journalism’s AI problem is that we never solved its consumer problem jskfellows.stanford.edu/local-journa...

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

The University of Bergen has appointed Professor Luciano Floridi of Yale University as an honorary doctor, following a nomination from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Department of Information Science and Media Studies. www.uib.no/infomedia/18...

Hello Researchers, Welcome to the new Communalytic! We've launched a major upgrade to Communalytic with new features, new data sources, improved visualizations, a unified login experience, and so much more. communalytic.org/2026/03/15/c... #academicsky #sciencesky #medsky #comsky #polsky #phdsky

ceux que le sujet intéresse liront, peut-etre, ces deux billets : - algonaute.fr/fr/money-tra... - algonaute.fr/fr/dragon-mo...

New blog post - The hype surrounding generative AI has now been overtaken by agentic AI, which is presented as a response to the limitations of large language models. However, the marketing hype often obscures the operational reality. ohmybox.info/agentic-ai-b...

Un nouveau billet de blog pour démonter le hype. IA agentique : des promesses marketing aux réalités opérationnelles ohmybox.info/ia-agentique...

Fascinating! Fine tuning LLMs (Meta Llama, OpenAI GPT ..) to produce warmer interactions decreases their accuracy on tasks w/ objective, verifiable answers (by increasing their sycophancy). Training them to be cold does not impair accuracy in the same way. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tiny Tools: A Framework for Human-Centered Technology in Journalism - Journalists need small and focused tools that are interoperable but do one thing well. #datajournalism generative-ai-newsroom.com/tiny-tools-a...

Introducing the News Atom: a metadata blueprint for journalism in the age of AI reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-...

AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-unde...

Authentic Iranian political prisoners are being packaged into AI-enhanced collages and unverified execution claims and fed into a propaganda noise machine. The Iranian state is the only beneficiary, writes Mahsa Alimardani.

Fine-tuning doesn’t reliably predict safety outcomes: minor changes can degrade safeguards, while larger ones may not. This “safety drift” can also surface in entirely different domains than intended use while raising real concerns for high-stakes deployments.

In AI discourse, anthropomorphising language assigns cognition and agency to technical systems, misrepresenting functionality and obscuring human responsibility. "De-anthropomorphizing AI: From wishful mnemonics to accurate nomenclature" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... #academicreading

AI agents can now cost more than the humans they were supposed to replace startupfortune.com/ai-agents-ca...

"The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative developments" This study is available here: ai-on-the-internet.github.io?ref=404media...

Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

been thinking a lot about this 1972 Weizenbaum paper a lot lately, especially when i hear people say things like access to llms reduce inequality by leveling the playing field, solve the mental health crisis & the loneliness pandemic, etc, all of which are problems rooted in very technology itself

Designing synthetic datasets for the real world: Mechanism design and reasoning from first principles — Useful perspective on building synthetic datasets by starting fr… https://research.google/blog/designing-synthetic-datasets-for-the-real-world-mechanism-design-and-reasoning-from-first-principles/

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

Wise by Vivienne Ming: 'The goal of working with AI isn’t to get the answer faster. It’s to find out what you’re missing. Don’t deploy AI minions to “do the boring work” for you...; use it as a savant collaborator to explore uncertainty.' Gift link: @socos.org www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-a...