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AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable – and it's a problem for all of us

AIHub

AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable - and it's a problem for all of us What happens to language when a growing amount of text published in the press, online and on social media is written by machines? This question is not just important for the profession of journalism - it also has an impact on the richness of the language we all use to comprehend, describe and discuss reality itself. Historically, the press has been a space where public language grows and becomes richer. It is not, of course, the only driver of linguistic change, but it is one of the fields where new or emerging words, turns of phrase and ways of describing facts begin to circulate within society. Studies on journalistic language and neologisms clearly demonstrate that newspapers are platforms for the creation and dissemination of new vocabulary, especially when it is needed to report on events, technology and social changes for a broad audience.


Most New US Data Centers Are Slated for Drought-Plagued Areas

Mother Jones

To meet this moment, we need YOU. For five decades, has been exposing the corruption that the powerful would rather keep buried. That fight for the truth is at a pivotal point, and it takes readers like you to make it possible. To meet this moment, we need YOU. That fight for the truth is at a pivotal point, and it takes readers like you to make it possible. Amid public outcry over water-guzzling server farms, a Guardian analysis indicates trouble ahead.


Gwyneth Paltrow Just Goopified Drone Warfare

Mother Jones

To meet this moment, we need YOU. For five decades, has been exposing the corruption that the powerful would rather keep buried. That fight for the truth is at a pivotal point, and it takes readers like you to make it possible. To meet this moment, we need YOU. That fight for the truth is at a pivotal point, and it takes readers like you to make it possible.


Tennessee Teens Sue Elon Musk's xAI Over Child Sexual Abuse Images

Mother Jones

Support journalism that doesn't flinch . Support journalism that doesn't flinch . Elon Musk leaves a meeting with House Republicans in the basement of the US Capitol building on March 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk's company xAI over allegations that its artificial intelligence tool Grok undressed photos of them as minors--the latest challenge against the wealthiest living person's chatbot .


Help! My Best Friend's Husband Has a Very Strange Set of "Rules." And Now He's Turning Them on Me.

Slate

My Best Friend's Husband Has a Very Strange Set of "Rules." Prudie chats with Lizzie O'Leary, host of What Next: TBD, about a man whose "quirky" demands are getting concerning. I'm struggling with the behavior of my close friend's husband, and I'm worried about how it's affecting her. He is the most indecisive person I have ever encountered. Any time we visit, he has to plan our schedule down to the minute, but even then, he constantly changes his mind.


RFK's Overhauled Autism Committee Is Even Worse Than It Looks

Mother Jones

RFK's Overhauled Autism Committee Is Even Worse Than It Looks Kennedy has stacked another HHS panel with his fellow travelers in the anti-vaccine and pseudoscience world. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Last April, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. promised that his agency would find the cause of autism "by September." That didn't pan out, but this week he appears to be trying again--by stacking a decades-old committee devoted to "innovations in autism research, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention" with his friends and fellow travelers in the anti-vaccine and pseudoscience world. Much like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which Kennedy overhauled last fall with a full slate of new appointees after firing all the old members, he filled the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), which was first established in 2000 to help set the federal agenda for autism research, with Kennedy's allies in the anti-vaccine movement.


AI-generated news should carry 'nutrition' labels, thinktank says

The Guardian

The IPPR recommended standardised labels for AI-generated news, showing what information had been used to create those answers. The IPPR recommended standardised labels for AI-generated news, showing what information had been used to create those answers. AI-generated news should carry'nutrition' labels, thinktank says AI-generated news should carry "nutrition" labels and tech companies must pay publishers for the content they use, according to a left-of-centre thinktank, amid rising use of the technology as a source for current affairs . The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said AI firms were rapidly emerging as the new "gatekeepers" of the internet and intervention was needed to create a healthy AI news environment. It recommended standardised labels for AI-generated news, showing what information had been used to create those answers, including peer-reviewed studies and articles from professional news organisations.


What Does the em GPT /em in ChatGPT Stand For?

Slate

Please enable Javascript in your browser to view Slate interactives. Slate Crossword: Get Too Old for This S--, Perhaps? (Six Letters) Which President Was Largely Blamed by for the Financial Panic of 1837? Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker.


Publishers fear AI search summaries and chatbots mean 'end of traffic era'

The Guardian

Search traffic to news sites has already plunged by a third in one year, according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Search traffic to news sites has already plunged by a third in one year, according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Publishers fear AI search summaries and chatbots mean'end of traffic era' Media companies expect web traffic to their sites from online searches to plummet over the next three years, as AI summaries and chatbots change the way consumers use the internet. An overwhelming majority are also planning to encourage their journalists to behave more like YouTube and TikTok content creators this year, as short-form video and audio content continues to boom. The findings are drawn from a new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, which included the views of 280 media leaders from 51 countries.


I Made My Dating Profile Weird on Purpose. It's Surprisingly Effective.

Slate

When everyone looks too perfect to trust, weirdness becomes the most convincing sign you're real. If my dating app profile were made with A.I., my nose would be smaller, my teeth whiter. My eyes would be equally hooded, or not hooded at all, and my skin smoother. Men wouldn't make a game out of guessing whether I'm neurodivergent or Jewish. My gaze would be coquettish, my aura obvious, my entire essence ratcheted down a notch or several.