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, […]
Studies show negative bias in coverage of economy and gas prices
Studies show a negative bias in U.S. coverage of the economy and gas prices, particularly cable news, as the tone of economic news moves away from reality, reports John Burn-Murdoch of the Financial Times. Burn-Murdoch writes, “Data from the US Federal Reserve shows the same tell-tale pattern we have grown used to with crime: people assess their […]
Is it a news organization, or a hedge fund?
Clare Malone of The New York writes about Hunterbrook, which is using reporting from journalists to trade in the market. Malone writes, “Hunterbrook employs three full-time ‘investigators,’ two of whom have backgrounds not as journalists but as intelligence analysts. Murray, the former Wall Street Journal editor, runs a weekly editorial meeting. But it is Reid who […]
The pressures that business journalists face
Chris Hedges of “The Chris Hedges Report” spoke with Gretchen Morgenson, a senior financial reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit who previously worked for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times where she won a Pulitzer Prize, about the issues in journalism. Here is an excerpt: Chris Hedges: Yeah. I used to say, that […]
Judge orders Oregonion to destroy documents in Nike case
A federal judge on Friday ordered The Oregonian not to publish information from documents it obtained last week from an attorney in a sexual discrimination case against Nike, reports Matthew Kish of The Oregonian. Kish reports, “The attorney, Laura Salerno Owens, who represents the plaintiffs in the case, sent a file of documents to a news reporter […]
LA Times owner upset about reporting on billionaire friend
The owner of the Los Angeles Times tried to dissuade the paper’s business news desk from pursuing a story about another billionaire, report Ryan Mac, Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson. Mac, Mullin and Robertson report, “The incident weighed on Mr. Merida, two of the people said. The editor had already found himself at odds with the Soon-Shiong […]
Newton’s decision to take newsletter off Substack
Oliver Darcy of CNN takes a look at Casey Newton‘s decision to take his tech newsletter Platformer off of Substack and Twitter/X. Darcy writes, “For a journalist whose job it is to call out other companies for maintaining questionable business relationships, Newton said it would have not only been ethically dubious for him to ignore the […]
