Sarah Gotfredsen

Oct 31, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Sarah Gotfredsen

Posted Thursday, October 31, 2024 9:31 am Last week, DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, made a tool for identifying AI-generated text generally available—a widely appreciated step toward greater levels of accountability in an industry struggling with misattribution. The tool, called SynthID, builds on a growing research area: watermarking, or the idea of adding hidden patterns to digital content that reliably identify them as having been made using AI. Google has been rolling out SynthID for...

Aug 1, 2024 | proofnews.org | Julia Angwin |Annie Gilbertson |Alex Reisner |Sarah Gotfredsen

YouTubers have long wondered whether their work has been scraped by AI companies to train their models — but Proof News investigative reporter Annie Gilbertson has proven it. She found that big companies, including Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Bloomberg have all used a dataset containing the transcripts to more than 170,000 YouTube videos, including videos by megastars like Mr. Beast, Marques Brownlee, and PewDiePie.

Jul 16, 2024 | proofnews.org | Julia Angwin |Annie Gilbertson |Alex Reisner |Sarah Gotfredsen

All of Proof News’s investigations include an “ingredients label” that distills the key elements of our work: the hypothesis, the sample size, the techniques we used in analysis, our key findings, and perhaps most important, the limitations of our published work. We want the reader to have access to not just our final product but also the information necessary to understand how we arrived at the best available version of the truth.

Jul 16, 2024 | proofnews.org | Alex Reisner |Annie Gilbertson |Julia Angwin |Sarah Gotfredsen

Most developers of artificial intelligence models are secretive about the sources of their training data. They need vast amounts of high-quality text to build AI models that mimic human speech and writing. Books, blogs, art, original research, and other creative work is used, often without the knowledge of creators.

Jul 9, 2024 | proofnews.org | Sarah Gotfredsen |Kaitlyn Dowling |Julia Angwin |Annie Gilbertson

The U.S. elections are less than five months away, and the public has less visibility than ever before into political messaging on Facebook and Instagram. In August, Meta is shutting down CrowdTangle, a popular social media monitoring tool used to track misinformation on Facebook and Instagram. The company says its replacement, the Meta Content Library (MCL), is a better tool for researchers.