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date: 2024-07-23, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Earlier this month, The Washington Post debuted its first generative AI chatbot, Climate Answers. The chatbot’s promise is to take in readers’ most pressing questions about climate change science, policy, and politics, and turn out a brief summary of the Post’s reporting on that topic, with full citations and link outs to relevant stories. The…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/the-washington-posts-cto-on-first-ai-chatbot-climate-answers/
date: 2024-07-23, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Good news or bad news? It depends. Are you an internet user who cares about privacy? An internet publisher who cares about making money? Or somewhere in between? On Monday afternoon, Google shocked the online-advertising world by saying that, actually, despite years of promises, it wouldn’t be dropping cookies from its world-dominant web browser, Chrome….
date: 2024-07-23, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Social media is a problem for economists. They don’t know how to value it. It has long been argued that it ought to be in the national accounts as part of gross domestic product. One 2019 study estimated Facebook alone is worth $40 to $50 per month for consumers in the United States. But that’s…
date: 2024-07-22, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
It’s not often that massive political news breaks on a Sunday afternoon — especially one in steamy late July, the leading edge of the Greater August vacation season. But break news Joe Biden most certainly did with this tweet announcing he would not run for reelection this fall. pic.twitter.com/RMIRvlSOYw — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 21,…
date: 2024-07-22, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
After yet another day reading about audio industry layoffs and show cancellations, or listening to podcasts about layoffs and show cancellations, I sometimes wonder, “With all this great audio being given away for free, who did we think was supposed to pay for it all?” I find some consolation in the fact that that question…