Andrew Deck

Over the past year, AI chatbots have been widely criticized for how poorly they cite news publishers, and how little traffic they drive to the publishers they do cite properly. ChatGPT has often been at the center of this conversation. Last summer, I reported that ChatGPT frequently hallucinated…

The gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs).

Nieman Lab’s public database of the AI newsletter network operating in over 300 towns and cities across the U.S.

The DeepSeek hype cycle is in full force, but can the chatbot attribute sources more accurately than its competitors?

Good Daily, which operates in 47 states and 355 towns and cities across the U.S., is run by one person.

Subtitles for documentaries by Alex Gibney, Ava DuVernay and Ken Burns, and episodes of PBS’ Frontline and BBC’s Panorama, were used to train LLMs.

Earlier this year, the WSJ owner sued Perplexity for failing to properly license its content. Now its research tool Factiva has negotiated its own AI licensing deals.

The ruling comes after a judge dismissed similar claims filed by Raw Story and AlterNet earlier this month.

The law itself is likely to stand, but experts expect a surge in requests, longer delays, and more court dates.

Google Search may not get a lot of love these days, but a niche Chrome extension launched in March — Google Scholar PDF Reader — counts 500,000 users who leave largely positive reviews : "A revolutionary game changer. Considering naming my first-born child after this chrome extension.&quo…