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AI gets writers' block
Taking up the cudgels for the content comrades, the Writers Guild of America has flung itself into the front line against AI-produced writing. Are they putting up a doomed defence?
May 18, 2023
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Click factories and viral news publishers - plucky underdogs, or grossly inflated insiders?
BuzzFeed et al were a phenomenon of a kind, yet they didn't really change anything at all.
May 11, 2023
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What is Publishing's Original Digital Sin?
Once bitten, twice shy is how publishers' treat the technological powerhouses of the online world. But we should not assume it would always be better that way.
Apr 27, 2023
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How hobbyist media serves innovation and the economy
There's something for everyone in the hobbyist content market, and that is worth celebrating.
Apr 20, 2023
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The sky isn't about to fall on our heads
A weariness and wariness over some aspects of tech is apparent both in our bodies politic and the general public at large. This is good for publishers.
Apr 13, 2023
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Publishers and machine learning: Herding cats or all about the training?
Different approaches to generative AI are emerging, with one interesting prospect being the internal use of such technology to act as an organisational memory.
Apr 6, 2023
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It's all clickbait, and it always was
Producing popular content for your audience is the name of the game, so does that mean clickbait is a meaningless term?
Mar 30, 2023
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Are we in danger of eating our own words?
As publishers on the one hand look to generative AI content as a route to reducing production costs, on the other hand they are finding their own content being utilised by such systems without any deal in place.
Mar 23, 2023
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No One Can Write Like Me
Publishers are under endless pressure for "quality content" to feed search engine results. Yet in practice, the system of determination for what is good and bad lacks context and resembles a crude egg sorting operation.
Mar 2, 2023
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Petulance unbecoming of a tech behemoth?
Google may be preparing for some punitive action in Canada prior to the potential adoption of a "pay for content" law.
Feb 23, 2023
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Machine Learning: Is your research assistant looking at your notes?
A inquisitive and expansive robot librarian or a relentless gutter and regurgitator of other people's work? Possibly both. Bing Chat has had an interesting week.
Feb 16, 2023
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How did you win the war with AI dad?
Publishers might feel they need to shelter from the coming AI search storm as Microsoft takes on Google on its own turf.
Feb 9, 2023