AI search engines cite incorrect news sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
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A dartboard with only a few darts hitting it, with many misses beside it.
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A new study from Columbia Journalism Review's Tow Center for Digital Journalism finds serious accuracy issues with generative AI models used for news searches. The researchers tested eight AI-driven search tools by providing direct excerpts from real news articles and asking the models to identify each article's original headline, publisher, publication date, and URL. They discovered that the AI models incorrectly cited sources in more than 60 percent of these queries, raising significant concerns about their reliability in correctly attributing news content.
Using a random text generation program as a replacement for reading and critical thinking results in errors, finds study
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This is why I still have, and keeping my home, as dumb as I can.
09.08.2025 08:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
While working on my Cyborgs course updates today, I was reflecting on how LLMs pass the Turing test, but ONLY pass the Turing test: the user believes they are intelligent.
That does not mean they actually are! It means nothing about the machine, everything about the user.
07.08.2025 20:13 — 👍 34 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 2
Uruguays elproduktion nästan helt förnybar
I Uruguay är näst intill all el som produceras förnybar, i fjol hela 99 procent. Men så har det inte alltid varit, berättar fysikern Ramón Méndez för SVT Nyheter.
I Sverige hade vi också en energiöverenskommelse 2016 om 100 % förnybar el. Sen valde kärnkraftshögern kulturkrig istället…
”En anledning till att Uruguay klarat omställningen tror Méndez är att politiken hållit en tydlig linje i frågan, oavsett vilket parti som styrt.”
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05.08.2025 06:44 — 👍 75 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 1
Trump är verkligen inte bara en idiot i största allmänhet utan en specifikt livsfarlig idiot.
05.08.2025 07:54 — 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.
04.08.2025 22:54 — 👍 1742 🔁 378 💬 45 📌 17
I insist on our Star Trek future. I'm going to do everything in my power to make our Star Trek future happen, even if I won't be here to enjoy it.
04.08.2025 01:53 — 👍 1532 🔁 264 💬 122 📌 29
Looking forward to start building this set.
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“So ensuring [privacy] in a world where the authority to know us has been ceded to private actors who may or may not cooperate with one or another regime, who may choose to use that data to manipulate or to harm us or to exclude us from access to resources, is existentially important.”
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Karma?
02.08.2025 19:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Go big or go home – this is how you drain the swamp …
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Jonas Fröberg: Sveriges järnväg kollapsar – och ingen styr tåget
En kommentar av DN:s ekonomireporter Jonas Fröberg om tågen.
Vad jag önskar att något parti kunde driva tågfrågan! Och då menar jag inte ljusblåa drömmar om höghastighetståg (tåg kan aldrig konkurrera med flyg när det gäller hastighet, däremot med bekvämlighet) utan om tåg som vardag för hundratusentals svenskar.
31.07.2025 09:41 — 👍 69 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 2
Motherfucking wind farms…
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**Alt-Text:** Auf beigem Hintergrund steht in schwarzer Schrift ein Zitat von Max Mannheimer: „Ihr seid nicht verantwortlich für das, was geschah. Aber dafür, dass es nicht wieder geschieht – dafür schon.“ Der Name des Autors steht am unteren Rand des Bildes.
„Ihr seid nicht verantwortlich für das, was geschah. Aber dafür, dass es nicht wieder geschieht – dafür schon.“
– Max Mannheimer
Erinnerung ist mehr als Gedenken. Sie ist Verantwortung. Heute. Jeden Tag.
#NieWieder #MaxMannheimer #GegenDasVergessen
#ZIVD
31.07.2025 08:59 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
And this is why every drop of water counts, it is far from an endless resource to harvest.
30.07.2025 13:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Birthday! 💐
29.07.2025 18:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
what the fuck is this shit
21.07.2025 15:38 — 👍 4255 🔁 638 💬 194 📌 176
ChatGPT är en serie sannolikhetsmodeller för hur ord borde sitta ihop med varandra, neuronnät som har tränats på oerhörda mängder data för att kunna efterlikna mänskligt språk.
Det är en imponerande teknisk utveckling. Men: Den saknar självkännedom. Den reflekterar inte. Den erkänner inte
21.07.2025 09:48 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Have we forgotten why we are supposed to cut back on the use of fossil fuel? As we stop discussing the climate do we also forget about saving the biosphere?
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#686. Stop killing (games) - Mediespanarna
Erik och Jesper samtalar här om en folkrörelse som protesterar mot baksidorna i den förändrade produktionen och distributionen av spel under de senaste decennierna. Till syvende og sidst handlar denna...
Vad är mer sommar än att tv-spela i ett mörkt rum? #Mediespanarna @lindenius.bsky.social och @jesperenbom.bsky.social samtalar om en folkrörelse som protesterar mot baksidorna av den förändrade produktionen och distributionen av spel under de senaste decennierna.
mediespanarna.se/2025/07/20/6...
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When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
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I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using ai, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong".
Not only did the students discover that chatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realize that they should not use it as a primary source.
Teaching AI literacy.
(GenAI is wrong A LOT. And even though people tend to think it saves time, we now have randomized controlled trials that show situations where it takes *more* time even when participants self-report it's saving them time.)
17.07.2025 21:05 — 👍 1143 🔁 403 💬 17 📌 31
Just precis detta är det vi intresserar oss för (och känner oro kring) i vårt forskningsprojekt DINO (Data Is the New Oil).
16.07.2025 23:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We have decided to ban the use of GenAI for research, writing & creative work at our organization.
In fact, we make people sign an agreement saying that their research, analysis, writing, and creative work are *theirs* and not done by GenAI.
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CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen
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Lite för nära verkligheten, annars rätt komisk.
14.07.2025 08:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core
Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers
”students with stronger verbal abilities, and who are more curious, open-minded, and intellectually rigorous, are more likely to study philosophy. Nonetheless, after accounting for such baseline differences, philosophy majors outperform all other majors on tests of verbal and logical reasoning”
14.07.2025 08:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
“.. We appear to be driving straight into an abyss that holds no memory of what democracy is, was, or should be.
“.. The people in charge who are supposed to protect us .. now use the Constitution as a weapon to suit their own ends.”
@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/fired-j...
10.07.2025 23:24 — 👍 6367 🔁 2290 💬 163 📌 99
Här är de populäraste utbildningarna i höst
Och här är utbildningarna som borde vara populära – ”Vi felutbildar i Sverige”
Svenskt näringsliv satsar på fel branscher, de behöver anpassa sig bättre till den tillgängliga arbetskraften.
11.07.2025 07:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts.
Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.
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