Digital world

  Popular news site Semafor has just rolled out a powerful AI-based editorial tool  dubbed Signals . The tool is said to make use of AI-based research, attaining help from Microsoft’s Bing and ChatGPT. What users get in the end is a news feed from various sources around the globe, as mentioned by the startup on Monday. Microsoft is providing full sponsorship for Signals and also rolling out a disguised amount in the name of funding, as mentioned by  The Financial Times . It created the customized AI bot so that journalists can benefit from this OpenAI platform as well as Bing. Meanwhile, Site Editors spoke about the findings arising from the chatbot and how it was able to generate all kinds of accurate answers, produce synopses, and also cite sources if need be. Meanwhile, another post was found on X where the editor-in-chief spoke about the great efforts involved in bettering the digital media landscape that’s been  broken  for years. They spoke about how AI to...

  When ChatGPT burst onto the scene, one of the predictions that people made about its overall impact was that the internet would soon be flooded by AI generated content as well as spam. It turns out that this prediction has come true, and there are three recent events that highlight what’s currently going on with all things having been considered and taken into account. First and foremost is the incident involving  404 Media  which had to take steps to retool its website for the purposes of preventing AI related spam. Some of its stories have been rewritten by websites that are better search engine optimized, and as a result of the fact that this is the case, they rank even higher than the website that actually created the content in the first place. Such a trend can be harmful because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up taking revenue and clicks away from a site like 404 Media. There are now tools that can create hundreds of differen...

  Social media can be useful place to gather news, but in spite of the fact that this is the case most people don’t seem to trust tech platforms for news. These platforms have become notorious due to the high quantity of misinformation and fake news that is present on them, although Google seems to be more trustworthy than most other platforms that are out there. A survey recently conducted by  Reuters  shed some light on which platforms are trusted and which aren’t with all things having been considered and taken into account. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that trust in news in general is on the decline. Around 46% of British respondents to this survey stated that they don’t like to read the news anymore. 52% said that they trusted Google as a source of news, but only 20% said the same for TikTok. Meta’s platforms including Facebook and Instagram also performed really poorly based on this survey. Only 27% of the people ...