I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
GenAI might be good for the news industry, argues @shuwei.bsky.social.
She says it might take us from
- scarcity to abundance
- human audience to machine audience
- articles to liquid information
- attention to intention
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/informa...
The problem with getting AI to write for you:
“Now you don’t get to do the thing that you enjoy”.
sachnishal.bsky.social
#nicar2026
UK publishers are banding together to create standards for responsible AI—amid Anthropic’s stark reminders of its potential for harm. Read @emilybell.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/s...
The Washington Post has signed a multi-year deal for Veritone's content licensing solution to represent the newsbrand's video content for global licensing opportunities www.veritone.com/newsroom/pre...
News Corp signed a multi-year deal with Meta, allowing it to train on and retrieve its US and UK content tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
Reuters used Gemini to extract data from public documents.
They found that some prisons are as hot as 104F.
They spent $2000.
Before AI, for an equivalent project they hired a data entry company to extract data and spent $40,000
www.reuters.com/podcasts/hea...
What does this mean Aurora??
“His patent applications were rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on similar grounds.”
“The Supreme Court previously rejected Thaler's request, opens new tab to hear his argument in a separate case involving prototypes for a beverage holder and a light beacon concerning whether AI-generated inventions should be eligible for U.S. patent protection.”
“The Copyright Office has separately rejected bids by artists for copyrights on images generated by the AI system Midjourney.”
“The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning away a case involving a computer scientist from Missouri who was denied a copyright for a piece of visual art made by his AI system.”
The practice of turning a press release into a story without any other research is bad journalism. Doing it quicker is bad journalism quicker.
This is the most important new piece of information from @willoremus.com and @scottnover.bsky.social's story about Cleveland Plain Dealer using AI. Using AI to write a first draft based on reporters' notes is VERY different to using it to write a first draft based on a press release.
"More recently, she filed her notes on the possible repossession of 41 county sheriff’s cruisers to the paper’s AI rewrite desk, which helped to turn them into a 600-word article that appeared on Cleveland.com."
"Plain Dealer reporter Hannah Drown said she broke and wrote a story about overcrowding at a high school thanks to an alert from an AI tool that scans the transcripts of school board meetings for newsworthy tidbits."
"In the time saved by not writing, the reporters are asked to do the kinds of reporting that AI can’t, like inviting a mayor or police chief to coffee."
"Some are as simple as rewriting a press release, while others require more legwork: The reporter types up the notes and quotes they’ve gathered then sends them to the rewrite editor, who prompts the AI to turn them into a full article draft for the editor and reporter to review and tweak as needed"
"Quinn said the reporters tasked with covering these counties are now expected to file four stories a day with the help of AI."
"So far, the paper is using the AI tool mostly for brief, straightforward stories from Cleveland’s suburbs in Lorain, Lake and Geauga counties, Quinn said — restoring some of the “hyperlocal” coverage the paper lost when it shuttered most of its outlying bureaus more than a decade ago."
"Instead of employing wordsmiths for these pieces, the Plain Dealer is using a generative AI tool to draft the stories, which the human editor reviews and sends back to the reporter for a final review before publication."
"In January, Quinn hired an editor to lead a new AI “rewrite desk,” modeled on a newsroom staple of yore: journalists who would take calls from reporters in the field and turn their interviews and notes into prose."
"He said he is particularly pleased with an AI tool that turns podcasts by the paper’s reporters into stories for the website, which he said generated more than 10 million page views last year."
"Quinn has implemented a suite of AI tools with various purposes: transcribing local government meetings, scraping municipal websites for story leads, cleaning up typos in story drafts, suggesting headlines and helping reporters draft follow-ups to articles they’ve already written."
Reach has signed a deal for its content to be used in Amazon’s Nova AI model and Alexa assistant with compensation based on usage
It is separately considering legal action against OpenAI, Press Gazette understands pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ne...
Press Gazette has used IdentifAI to determine that two journalists’ byline pictures are AI generated and used Pangram to determine their text bios were AI generated
A lawsuit has been launched against OpenAI in Denmark on behalf of news publishers whose work was believed to have been used to train ChatGPT pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ne...
Why I think this story is important:
The news industry is experiencing an existential crisis. We do not yet know if it will be financially viable to create news in the future.
This is important for society as that may mean a radical reduction in accurate info about changes in your world.
“... without collective leverage or a shared product-level offering (e.g., structured API access with usage-based compensation), SPUR might perhaps influence the market, but I doubt it will reshape it.”
@ezraeeman.bsky.social warns of limits to SPUR coalition
"Cloudflare empowers organizations with the transparency and control tools they need to manage content access and define value on their own terms."
