Andrew Deck
Staff Writer, AI at Nieman Lab
Reporting on AI and journalism @NiemanLab. Previously: @restofworld. Bylines: @JapanTimes @MetropolisJapan @PopMech. DMs open. Signal: andrewdeck.01
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1 week ago |
niemanlab.org | Andrew Deck
LINK: journals.sagepub.com ➚ | Posted by: Andrew Deck | April 16, 2025Last May, as India conducted the largest democratic election in history, I spoke to reporters and fact-checkers in the country about the challenges they faced identifying political deepfakes. Many of them spoke to shortcomings in existing AI detection tools, and the biases baked into them.
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2 weeks ago |
niemanlab.org | Andrew Deck
Last month, Patch announced it was publishing AI-generated newsletters in 30,000 communities across the U.S. These newsletters scrape from local news sites, social media groups, and official town websites, then use large language models (LLMs) to select the most relevant headlines and draft story summaries. The final product is a daily or twice-weekly email round up, with link outs to five articles and a list of upcoming events.
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1 month ago |
niemanlab.org | Andrew Deck
On March 7, education reporter Hannah Dellinger published a story on the experiences of Michigan LGBTQ+ students since Donald Trump took office. Dellinger spoke to several students who have seen a rise in hate speech at school after the president signed a series of anti-trans executive orders. The lead voice in the story was Sebastian Eaton-Ellison, a gender-fluid senior who has faced relentless bullying, and even physical assaults, at his high school.
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1 month ago |
niemanlab.org | Andrew Deck
LINK: www.cjr.org ➚ | Posted by: Andrew Deck | March 10, 2025Over the past year, AI chatbots have been widely criticized for how poorly they cite news publishers, and how little traffic they drive to the publishers they do cite properly. ChatGPT has often been at the center of this conversation. Last summer, I reported that ChatGPT frequently hallucinated fake URLs to news sites, even to articles from OpenAI’s own publishing partners.
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2 months ago |
niemanlab.org | Andrew Deck
In December, Carla McCanna received a message from a recruiter at the AI training data company Outlier. McCanna, a recent graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, had never heard of the company, but the message came through Handshake, a recruiting portal hosted by the university. “The recruiter said my skills align with a writing expert role and that I’d be training AI models to optimize accuracy and efficiency,” McCanna told me.
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Last month, Patch announced it was publishing AI-generated newsletters in 30,000 communities across the U.S. I spoke to former Patch workers about the precursor to its AI program and the decision to leave human newsletter writers across the country behind https://t.co/nedbiY6O5t
I spoke to @AHCJ about my reporting for @niemanlab and how I uncovered a network of AI-generated local newsletters. Thanks to Karen Blum for a great conversation! https://t.co/GoTzG7bILE
Local newsrooms are using AI summaries to listen in on school board meetings, town halls, and state legislatures. Reporters at @Chalkbeat and @MaineVillager have already published stories using these tools. My latest for @niemanlab. https://t.co/HxK1ipzC7N