The Journalism and Media Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at SCU. Tweets by @subbuvincent. https://xitter.cf/t.co/SvCdrn6NGM.
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1. Today, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @scuethics is releasing our News Distribution Ethics Roundtable’s Recommendations for public input.
Content Moderation gets a ton of attention, but “News Distribution” happens every second!
scu.edu/ethics/nde-2022/
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Our Director of Journalism and Media Ethics Subbu Vincent (@subbuvincent) on the quick tenure of Ronna McDaniel. @forbes forbes.com/sites/subramaniam…
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🗣️ Director of Journalism & Media Ethics and @Forbes‘s contributor @subbuvincent (@jmethics) writes about the need for democratized sourcing in journalism, especially regarding local news: scu.edu/ethics/all-about-eth….
#️⃣ #Journalism #JournalismMatters #Democracy #Media #ethics
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Despite my lack of surprise at this content-farm approach to producing "news", it still pains me that news websites keep doing this.
Karan, great job with this piece and quoting Emily Blender around the distinctions between actual journalism and generative AI text outputs.
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The latest example of exactly what not to use Generative AI tools for. In this case Gemini was used by an Indian news site Biharprabha to "text out" a piece and it did this:
I appreciate the opportunity to speak with an actual journalist (@karanhm134) about my experience finding a fabricated quote attributed to me in what turned out to be a fully fabricated (using the Gemini system) "news" article --- and the broader implications of these practices:
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Everyone has heard that there are serious problems with optimizing for engagement. But what are the alternatives?
New paper: we gathered folks from eight platforms for an off-the-record chat to share best practices -- and document them from public sources.
arxiv.org/abs/2402.06831
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Announcing our spring conference, "Journalism Ethics & the AI Challenge," happening at UW–Madison and online on Friday, April 5. Register here: ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2…
ALT Infographic showing pencil sketches of an AI network along with: "Journalism Ethics and the AI Challenge," April 5, 2024, UW–Madison campus
@jmethics director @subbuvincent is guest host at This Week in Digital Media on @JoinSubtext next week. More below.
This Week in Digital Media Host Announcement: @subbuvincent, the Director of Journalism & Media Ethics at @scuethics will host next week. He's passionate about the power of ethical media to foster pro-democracy discourse. Join the conversation: hubs.li/Q02kpp8x0
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This is an insane story from @Knibbs - and for those starry eyed or in denial and AI+ news - a must read. (The bitter irony of Jimmy Lai being wrongly held whilst his abandoned news site Apple Daily is turned into a ChatGPT click farm is peak 2024 ) wired.com/story/confessions-…
This week, we are making a couple of announcements from deep in the weeds of @jmethics at @scuethics.
Today, we released version 3.0-beta of the Source Diversity Dashboard WordPress plugin for US newsrooms.
scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/j…
We've documented all of the new features and design elements, with full credits to newsroom leads and others here.
scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/j…
Our team.
Engineering: Xiaoxiao Shang, Aster Li, Ethan Lin, Jinming Nian, Jil Patel (graduated), and Preeti Bhosale (graduated).
Principal Investigators: Yi Fang (Engineering) and @subbuvincent (Journalism and Media Ethics)
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🗣️ Dir., Journalism & Media Ethics @subbuvincent (@jmethics) writes in @Forbes about the costs, both economically and ethically, when AI is used in content creation, especially #journalism:
🔗 forbes.com/sites/subramaniam…
#️⃣ #AI #GenerativeAI #Media #ethics
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Delighted to share some of the findings from this collaboration!
Social media algorithms are often targeted as a key culprit of political polarization. Recently, researchers studied how tweaking Meta’s algorithm would affect users’ opinion. @TaliaStroud, a professor of communication and journalism at UT-Austin, tells us about their findings.
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When a news outlet opens up to explain its ethics to readers, it’s not uncommon to see the readers reciprocate. They spontaneously loop other readers in. And you create a journalistic community.
Transparency. Easy to talk, hard to do. This is doing:
niemanlab.org/2023/08/a-norw…
