Johannes Klingebiel

TikTok, Amazon, and Google haven’t yet provided comment to The Verge about C2PA support. Meta told The Verge that it is continuing to implement C2PA and evaluating its labeling approach as AI evolves. OpenAI simply directed us to its scant blog posts and help center article about C2PA support. Meta, like OpenAI, has an entire platform for its AI slop, complete with dedicated feeds for social and video content, and both companies are pumping AI-generated videos into social media. X, which has its own controversies regarding nude celebrity deepfakes, pointed us to its policy that supposedly bans deceptive AI-generated media, but did not provide any information about how this is moderated beyond relying on user reports and community notes. X was notably a founding member of the CAI back when it was still known as Twitter, but pulled itself from the initiative without explanation after Elon Musk purchased the platform.

The Verge exists to print this huge cowardly stack of no-comments from huge companies which spent years pretending they would develop a wonky content authentication metadata standard only to have it come to nothing when Sora was released www.theverge.com/report/80635...

Condé Nast’s Strategy for Media’s New Normal: Glam Events and Paywalls The Vogue parent wants to create “cultural moments” as magazines face traffic declines and AI disruption.

I find it curious how "AI" is treated as if it were a natural catastrophe… not a conscious and in part malicious shift in the business models of companies that have worked hard to own a central part of media infrastructure www.wsj.com/business/med...

OH: ZIRPslop

I might have to write about this at some point, but I have a very easy taxonomy for spotting if a "future of journalism" vision is realistic or worth pursuing for the industry: does it include traces of a realistic business model?

Which, btw, doesn't bode well for a lot of the ideas around AI.

PI | FIVE YEARS OF PERFECTLY IMPERFECT HOW IT STARTED, SOME BIG MOMENTS, AND WHERE IT'S ALL GOING.

Feeling very very late to the party but… well… currently trying to make sense of this www.pi.fyi/p/five-years...

Confessions Zine (Limited Edition) Substack is a parasocial wonderland. You subscribe to regular dispatches from one of your favourite thinkers and enjoy their musings on the news or pop culture; what they' re reading or watching or li...

Huh shop.i-d.co/products/con...

Tech-Journalismus-Fellowship Eine neue Heimat für alle, die Journalismus machen, Öffentlichkeit gestalten und so die Demokratie stärken. Ein Medienhaus für Morgen. Hier und in Berlin.

For my german timeline www.publix.de/mission/proj...

Oh yes, it’s definitely a bubble. Thanks, HSBC multi-asset team. www.ft.com/content/ce8b...

Futurists (derogatory)

22 news organizations, including BBC, just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.

Results: across 4 LLMS, 45% of responses contained
at least one significant issue of any type. Sourcing is the single
biggest cause of significant issues (31%) 🤐🤐
www.ebu.ch/Report/MIS-B...

Dear Students, as a reminder: Anyone interested in being part of the 'STS - The Musical' extravaganza, please join me on coming Wednesday (22/10) at 6pm in room 370 at Aug46. If you cannot make it, but would like to be part of it, drop me an email.

Curious things are happening at the STS Department

ah damn missed that 🫠

Tech Journalism Fund - Omidyar Network

dingdingding new tech journalism fund! omidyar.com/where-we-foc...

Still trying to figure out what Noma is now up to… specialty sauces, coffee and popcorn aside. (All of them were nice, though)

Technology and Jobs What can history and theory tell us about the impact of AI? And will AI doom or help save the planet?

“So whan can these examples tell us about the likelihood that AI will cause mass unemployment? Nothing. You can’t extrapolate from job destruction within particular occupations or sectors […] to employment in the economy as a whole.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/technology...

Proposing an update

It IS an interesting paper. Captures well a lot of the dynamics in how media companies have developed in the last 10 years and how much they borrow from tech companies logics.

(I would also add the “user” as the now dominant way of thinking about readers in newsrooms.)

Ashleigh Wade on How Black Girls Use Social Media

Really am a sucker for research about teenagers that actually engages with teenagers (not simply through statistics) pca.st/episode/72f6...

Nothing Personal, a new editorial platform by Mozilla Foundation Nothing Personal is Mozilla Foundation's counterculture magazine and editorial platform for independent thinkers like you. We imagine and defend the endless possibilities of the Internet. Read our rep...

Huh, new Mozilla publication (though I wonder how “counterculture” you can be if your CI is made by Pentagram) www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

If you’re new to Bluesky, the only thing you need to know is that we go by prison rules so you have to go find the biggest account that you can and kill them to gain respect

Has anyone ever written a good non-mythical history of tech keynotes? Especially when it comes to the connection/parallels to fashion runway events?

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

Ah, yes… “productivity” www.theverge.com/news/799312/...

The Press as Platform: Institutional Isomorphism and the Strategic Adoption of Platform Logics This paper reveals that major news outlets are starting to adopt the features of digital platforms in an attempt to become more autonomous and disentangle themselves from platform infrastructures. ...

Oh that one looks interesting www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Maintenance + Stewart Brand + Stripe Press is certainly an interesting combination 👀 www.amazon.de/Maintenance-...

Complicated Sticks. Potential in place of purpose is what separates an iPad from an iPod, blockchains from databases, and generative AI from text editors. The more complex the product, the more potential it has to have p...

“Browse the web sites of Notion, Figma, or Slack […] and you won’t find any assertions more specific than abstract claims of creativity, collaboration, health, wealth, or productivity.

They are tools for everything and nothing in particular.” fasterandworse.com/complicated-...

Happy “stuff is back from the printer” day

(I think this is also an excellent example of what is wrong with claiming to be an "optimist" about a technology. It only works if you ignore the material and political contexts they create or are embedded into. It only works if you define yourself purely as a consumer.)

Well…

Not much wading needed. The imagined future is about as shallow as it could be. What if we could serve "new junkies" via "agents"? For someone talking about being user-centered he only considers a single very very personal use case. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the cusp of abundance? How AI may redefine our relationship with news An AI-mediated news ecosystem has the potential to improve audience experience, argues this essay by expert David Caswell.

Not sure I have the energy to wade through this one reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/cusp-ab...