This edition of my linkblog is focused on journalism. It is a collection of links to stories and issues of interest to my work.
Spurious Copyright Claims and Deindexing: UK journalism industry publication Press Gazette has been targeted by a false copyright complaint that seeks to hide the outlet’s coverage of Clickout Media. This is a form of proxy lawfare.
AI Image and Video Generation keeps getting better, and cheaper: AI political ads are becoming more common, the proliferation of AI generated images and posters on Facebook is already commonplace. This week, Google released a new faster, more cost-efficient image generation model.
I recommend viewing the AI-enhanced video shown under the subheading “Experience high-quality, cost-efficient video editing and generation with Gemini Omni Flash.” This video is little different from CGI video. The difference is CGI would take hours of work by a specialized video editor, whereas now anyone can create using text prompts.
There will be adoption of these tools into credible journalism. During my early days in journalism, at Maclean’s between early 2007 and mid-2009, there were strict rules regarding picture editing using Adobe Lightroom. The over-simplification of those rules is that I wasn’t suppose use digital editing tools to make any modifications that couldn’t been done on old-school film in a chemical processing room. Fast-forward to the present; it is now common practice to use an array of tools to touch-up images.
There is one consistent rule that will never change in credible journalism: editing and tools cannot be used to falsify facts, reality, or mislead the audience.
Paul Bradshaw – Managing a mass FOI project? Here’s an AI-assisted methodology for that: A great guide to using AI LLMs to assist with organizing freedom of information responses from multiple agencies and jurisdictions in the United Kingdom.
Apple Podcasts pushing video: Podcasts providing video are experiencing increased consumption.
Tools for Reporters – TikTok, the tricky platform to search: as the title states, a post outlining the limited ways to monitor TikTok hashtags.
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