Julia Baird

4 days ago | abc.net.au | Julia Baird

As a journalist, I usually studiously avoid ChatGPT. It's ripped off my work, downloaded my books, the fruit of my own sweat and torment, and used them to increase its own intelligence. I'm regularly told it's coming for my job. I'm fastidious about research, so the idea that a tool like that could make up facts (you need to type in "real facts", apparently, if you want "true" ones) or fabricate footnotes, and slyly, blithely pop them into texts would cause me waking nightmares if I relied on it.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Julia Baird |Jeremy Fernandez

There's a copyright stoush over caramel slice and Jeremy and Julia have thoughts. Can you own a recipe? And is "Julia Baird's caramel slice" also just "Nagi's Caramel slice"? And you might have noticed an election on the weekend, it was hard to miss. Labor won in a landslide, so how does the Coalition rebuild and how many women will be involved?

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Julia Baird

Journalist, broadcaster, historian and author May 2, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Blue suits. High-vis vests. Cans of beer. One thing we can be sure of as we march – or dawdle – towards this election is that our next prime minister will be a bloke.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Julia Baird |Jeremy Fernandez

"Welcome to Country" ceremonies are the latest culture war as we reach the pointy end of the Federal Election campaign, so Jules and Jez look at why it has become such a hot button issue this week. And we had so much feedback about using Chat GPT for relationship advice, so Jules and Jez have been asking it their deepest, darkest secrets with mixed results.

3 weeks ago | radionz.co.nz | Julia Baird

By Julia Baird, ABCAnalysis: For centuries, it was believed that in the Middle Ages, a woman who was particularly astute and talented disguised herself as a man and rose through the ranks of the Catholic Church, until she eventually became pope. For two years, it was said, Pope Joan led the church, until her gender was shockingly discovered during a procession and she was stoned to death.