The Financial Times inks new licensing deal with OpenAI

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Monday, April 29, 2024 [The Financial Times inks new licensing deal with OpenAI]( The ChatGPT developer previously signed deals with The Associated Press, Axel Springer SE, the French newspaper Le Monde, and more. By Andrew Deck. [How I explained AI and deepfakes using only basic Vietnamese]( Using slides, hand gestures, and the Vietnamese vocabulary of a five-year-old, we talked about fake faces. By Lam Thuy Vo, The Markup. What We’re Reading 404 Media / Jules Roscoe [Russia has made its own state-sponsored Wikipedia clone →]( “Russia has replaced Wikipedia with a state-sponsored encyclopedia that is a clone of the original Russian Wikipedia but which conveniently has been edited to omit things that could cast the Russian government in poor light. Real Russian Wikipedia editors used to refer to the real Wikipedia as Ruwiki; the new one is called Ruviki, has ‘ruwiki’ in its url, and has copied all Russian-language Wikipedia articles and strictly edited them to comply with Russian laws.” The Conversation / Nora McDonald [Teens see social media algorithms as accurate reflections of themselves →]( “It turns out that the teens we interviewed believe social media algorithms like TikTok’s have gotten so good that they see the reflections of themselves in social media as quite accurate. So much so that teens are quick to attribute content inconsistencies with their self-image as anomalies – for instance, the result of inadvertent engagement with past content, or just a glitch.” The Guardian / Lisa O'Carroll [EU to investigate Meta over election misinformation ahead of June polls →]( “The commission cited concerns over Meta’s plan to discontinue CrowdTangle, a public insights tool that allows real-time disinformation researchers, journalists and others across the EU to monitor the spread of fake news and attempts to suppress voting.” Semafor / Max Tani [The New Yorker’s succession race is kicking off →]( “Each year, each top executive at Condé Nast’s One World Trade Center headquarters submits a shortlist of four to six people who could replace them. The lists remain secret. But none draws more internal speculation than the one assembled by New Yorker editor David Remnick…in recent months, the longtime New Yorker editor has increasingly mused to peers about his inevitable departure — and who might take his place.” The New York Times / Reggie Ugwu [With YouTube booming, podcast creators get camera-ready →]( Jay Cockburn, a radio and podcast producer for The Globe and Mail and Vocal Fry Studios: “It’s like saying ‘video radio.’ It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the medium.'” The Washington Post / Laura Wagner [Journalism professors call on New York Times to review October 7 report →]( “The letter, signed by professors at colleges including New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Emory and the University of Texas, asks the Times to ‘immediately commission a group of journalism experts to conduct a thorough and full independent review of the reporting, editing and publishing processes for this story and release a report of the findings.'” NBC News / Ben Kamisar [Poll shows Biden and Trump supporters sharply divided by the media they consume →]( “Biden is the clear choice of voters who consume newspapers and national network news, while Trump does best among voters who don’t follow political news at all.” The New Yorker / Manvir Singh [It’s possible we’ve been misinformed about how to fight misinformation →]( “From this perspective, railing against social media for manipulating our zombie minds is like cursing the wind for blowing down a house we’ve allowed to go to rack and ruin. It distracts us from our collective failures, from the conditions that degrade confidence and leave much of the citizenry feeling disempowered.” [Nieman Lab]( / [Fuego]( [Twitter]( / [Facebook]( [View email in browser]( [Unsubscribe]( You are receiving this daily newsletter because you signed up for for it at www.niemanlab.org. Nieman Journalism Lab Harvard University 1 Francis Ave.Cambridge, MA 02138 [Add us to your address book](