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The Problem: AI is disrupting the media landscape – from content creation and curation to distribution and audience engagement. However, AI’s impact on journalism practices and norms remains unclear amid concerns about AI-synthesized or -assisted misinformation.
We collaborate with journalists and newsrooms to study AI’s implications for media ethics, revenue models, and trust. Our research informs toolkits and guidelines for navigating AI’s impact while upholding credibility. We also advocate for empowering journalists through AI literacy initiatives.
Ongoing projects around Elections AI-gen content Tracker … how it can help develop training material and resources for journalists and fact checkers. As a portal for news rooms to quickly find examples of AI gen mis/disinformation for verification.
Ongoing work the WIRED news network around monitoring and supporting their own AI tracker.
Projects with folks at AIIJ on this issue and ways we can make AI work for Newsrooms in the global south.
Working on a CheapFake game for training journalists to identify Syntheticand manipulated media.
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