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Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions(niemanlab.org)

214 points by DeepLogin 8 days ago | 60 comments

Nieman Lab article reporting legal experts' view that Meta's revised terms of service still grant broad permissions to use scraped content for advertising and business products.

Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts(niemanlab.org)

429 points by 0in 10 days ago | 155 comments

Nieman Lab article reporting that Meta's new commercial terms, effective October 30, let Meta scrape websites of business accounts using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons(niemanlab.org)

473 points by rdmuser 20 days ago | 350 comments

Nieman Lab article reporting that ChatGPT generates fake New Yorker-style cartoons bearing real cartoonists' signatures, falsely attributing AI images to artists.

USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data(niemanlab.org)

166 points by cdrnsf 2 months ago | 67 comments

AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news(niemanlab.org)

117 points by thm 3 months ago | 35 comments

Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country(niemanlab.org)

223 points by cratermoon 5 months ago | 207 comments

News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism(niemanlab.org)

297 points by jaredwiener 5 months ago | 102 comments

The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news(niemanlab.org)

87 points by giuliomagnifico 5 months ago | 65 comments

Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat(niemanlab.org)

38 points by gnabgib 6 months ago | 36 comments

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns(niemanlab.org)

536 points by ninjagoo 8 months ago | 340 comments

Nieman Lab article reporting that news publishers are restricting Internet Archive access over concerns that AI companies scrape archived content.

ICE is pushing readers to nonprofit news sites that cover immigrant communities(niemanlab.org)

18 points by giuliomagnifico 8 months ago | 0 comments

A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content(niemanlab.org)

504 points by giuliomagnifico 8 months ago | 210 comments

Nieman Lab article about a proposed New York bill requiring disclaimers on news content generated by AI.

After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news(niemanlab.org)

148 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 137 comments

Majority of teens hold negative views of news media, says report(niemanlab.org)

22 points by giuliomagnifico 11 months ago | 30 comments

Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations(niemanlab.org)

152 points by aspenmayer 1 year ago | 68 comments

Law360 mandates reporters use AI "bias" detection on all stories(niemanlab.org)

47 points by 12_throw_away 1 year ago | 60 comments

Who isn't a big fan of "impartial" news? People who don't have power(niemanlab.org)

35 points by jaredwiener 1 year ago | 42 comments

The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI(niemanlab.org)

76 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 30 comments

Are Americans' perceptions of the economy and crime broken?(niemanlab.org)

27 points by bediger4000 1 year ago | 33 comments

Core copyright violation moves ahead in The Intercept's lawsuit against OpenAI(niemanlab.org)

286 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 305 comments

Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars(niemanlab.org)

259 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 478 comments

To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands(niemanlab.org)

136 points by bcta1 2 years ago | 71 comments

To preserve their work, journalists take archiving into their own hands(niemanlab.org)

7 points by aspenmayer 2 years ago | 1 comments

ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners' biggest investigations(niemanlab.org)

41 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 37 comments

Many people don't pay full price, Most don't want to pay at all for news(niemanlab.org)

17 points by sharpshadow 2 years ago | 16 comments

Rachel Aviv Wrote That New Yorker Story on Lucy Letby(niemanlab.org)

25 points by chapulin 2 years ago | 4 comments

I used ChatGPT as a reporting assistant. It didn't go well(niemanlab.org)

3 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 0 comments

The FT's chief executive on AI, "loyalist" readers, and its U.S. expansion(niemanlab.org)

27 points by jyunwai 2 years ago | 38 comments

6 months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable(niemanlab.org)

65 points by SLHamlet 2 years ago | 17 comments

News could end up as Art important to few elites marginal to the rest(niemanlab.org)

17 points by ycdxvjp 2 years ago | 11 comments

Asking people to "do the research" on fake news makes it more believable(niemanlab.org)

52 points by tysone 2 years ago | 22 comments

The Web Floods(niemanlab.org)

23 points by benwerd 2 years ago | 1 comments

Topo magazine uses comics to tell the news to French teens(niemanlab.org)

119 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 46 comments

YouTube launches new page that only shows videos from "authoritative" sources(niemanlab.org)

23 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 32 comments

Press freedom means controlling the language of AI(niemanlab.org)

13 points by marban 3 years ago | 13 comments

Associated Press clarifies standards around generative AI(niemanlab.org)

74 points by jyunwai 3 years ago | 28 comments

Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and his models) are leaving(niemanlab.org)

31 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 29 comments

NPR won’t tweet from NPR until Twitter removes false “state-affiliated” label(niemanlab.org)

26 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 37 comments

What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data?(niemanlab.org)

91 points by hhs 3 years ago | 81 comments