The thing literally says that generative AI can help journalists by producing newsletters. To see that coming from a reputable journalism school is alarming, to say the least.
@emilymbender
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GenAI Categorization: Machine Translation vs True Generative AI
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Okay, but how is categorization, IE, etc "genAI"? For coding support — that's really more of an MT scenario, I think. For summarization — I'd really want to see user studies that explore how to avoid getting mislead (incl re what's not in the summary).
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Expertise Unsolicited: Calling Out Mansplaining in Tech Communities
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Yes, please do keep sharing your expertise as (checks bio) "founder. orgs. tech. cybernetics. ex-biotech." with your Twitter-local professor of computational linguistics. Totally welcome. Not at all 'splainy.
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What else belongs under generative AI definition?
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And what else under the rubric "generative AI" do you think might be appropriate? And why is "generative AI" a reasonable name for that?
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Synthetic Text for Journalism Raises Serious Ethical Concerns
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The post says **generate newsletters** as one application. That is extremely worrying. I have done some thinking & speaking about when, if ever, synthetic text is appropriate. Hard to see how it ever could be for journalism:
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AI Newsletter Generation: Ethics and Best Practices Debate
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I'm not sure what your relationship is to the course announcement that @mer__edith and I are reacting to, but let me remind you this post included the claim that it is a good idea to **generate newsletters** with this tech.
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Synthetic Text in Journalism: Transparency and Ethical Concerns
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Enormous difference. I tell you this from my expertise as a computational linguist. And yes, we need transparency — anytime someone has encountered synthetic media that should be immediately apparent. But also: Synthetic text extruding machines have no place in journalism.
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Stop Selling Generative AI Hype: Reality Check
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If what you are doing is effectively finding ways to go back to the parts of the original documents that are relevant that is fine. This is, again, not "generative AI". Please stop selling the hype.
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Templatic Generation vs LLM Untethered Synthetic Text
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There's an enormous difference between templatic generation & other ways of going from structured data to natural language strings that reflect it to the kind of untethered synthetic text that comes out of LLMs.
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Evaluating AI Accuracy: How to Know When to Trust Results
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"Correctly identifying" And you evaluated this HOW? What % of the time is it actually right? And how do you know when NOT to trust it?