Lane of Forbes on the issues with Perplexity’s AI
Gretchen Peck interviewed Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane about his concerns with artificial intelligence developer Perplexity and its impact on its content. Here’s an excerpt: E&P: Since you published the June 11th column, have you encountered other similar cases of your content appearing in AI-authored articles or search summaries? Lane: While other AI companies are training […]
Washington Post reviewing private story by tech columnist Lorenz
Senior editors at the Washington Post are reviewing a prominent tech columnist’s private story on social media, which appears to label President Biden a “war criminal” in a photo, reports David Folkenflik of NPR. Folkenflik reports, “The Post’s Taylor Lorenz attended a White House event for digital influencers on Wednesday. In the photo she shared with a circle […]
Bloomberg takes disciplinary action over Gershkovich embargo break
Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait sent out the following: Last Thursday, we prematurely published a story on the release of Evan Gershkovich and the other prisoners, which could have endangered the negotiated swap that set them free. Even if our story mercifully ended up making no difference, it was a clear violation of the editorial standards […]
WSJ can’t confirm earlier story about UN agency in Palestine
The Wall Street Journal can’t confirm a January story it published about the UN agency for Palestinians, reports Maxwell Tani of Semafor. Tani reports, “But months later, the paper’s top editor overseeing standards privately made an admission: The paper didn’t know — and still doesn’t know —whether the allegation, based on Israeli intelligence reports, was true. “‘The fact […]
International press groups support Cheng, fired by WSJ
International press organizations and a top U.S. congressional panel are leading a growing chorus of support for Hong Kong Journalists Association chairwoman Selina Cheng, who said she was fired by The Wall Street Journal for assuming her leadership role in the union, reports Connor Mycroft of the South China Morning Post. Mycroft reports, “Other press groups that […]
Dead tech blog now publishing using AI with old bylines
The Unofficial Apple Weblog, a legendary and long-dead Apple-centric tech news blog, is publishing new content using artificial intelligence and the bylines of former journalists, reports Jason Koebler of 404 Media. Koebler reports, “This month, ‘Christina Warren’ started blogging again for The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), a legendary and long-dead Apple-centric tech news blog that she worked […]
Perplexity plagiarizes Wired story about Perplexity
Tim Marchman of Wired magazine writes about how artificial intelligence company Perplexity plagiarized a Wired story that called the company a “bullshit machine.” Marchman writes, “After we published the story, I prompted three leading chatbots to tell me about the story. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude generated text offering hypotheses about the story’s subject but noted that they had no […]
When your business news content gets stolen by AI
Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane writes about the impact of Perplexity taking the business news organization’s content without its permission and publishing it. Lane writes, “When Forbes Executive Editor John Paczkowski called out Srinivas on X for what the company had done, Srinivas responded that this new ‘product feature’ had some ‘rough edges.’ (‘Product feature sound […]
Rest of World retracts story on India fake news tools
Rest of World, a website that covers technology and its impact around the globe, has retracted a story from its website headlined “Fake news verification tools fail the test during elections in India” published last week. Editor in chief Anup Kaphle writes, “As part of our reporting for this story, Rest of World ran an experiment by sending AI […]
Hunterbrook publisher owns stake in company whose competitor was article subject
The publisher and co-founder of Hunterbrook Media, the startup newsroom whose affiliate places stock market bets to profit from its journalism, owns a stake in a competitor to a company that was recently the subject of a critical article, reports Maxwell Tani of Semafor. Tani reports, “The focus of the story is a company called Safety Shot, […]
