New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.

The AfD's AI delusion: How Germany’s far right fantasizes about using AI to replace migrants. Just like JD Vance speech in Munich, the AfD’s electoral program is not just inhumane – it’s completely incoherent. This is not a bug, it's a feature. New column from me in @technologyreview.de

There is a lot of work that detects and debunks AI hype. But what function does AI hype actually serve? Anna Schjøtt and I draw on 8 months of observations at the Associated Press to show how expectations on AI are leveraged to coordinate actors and mobilise resources: tinyurl.com/mwr2b6t3

Some unexpected good news: my paper has been nominated for Digital Journalism’s 2024 Outstanding Article of the Year Award! It contains interviews with journalists whose work I truly admire, so thank you to whoever shortlisted it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Documentary films by Alex Gibney, Ava DuVernay and Ken Burns, and episodes of PBS’ Frontline, BBC’s Panorama and Vice's HBO series were used to train major AI models without permission. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/thou...

There are a LOT of ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in the US right now. We've been keeping track at @wired.com—and, to make things easier on everyone, created this interactive visual guide. It'll be updated w/ any major developments: www.wired.com/story/ai-cop...