Looks like evacuated wildfire tourists taken to temporary accommodation in a stadium for the night #Rhodes

The same beach bar in Glystra #Rhodes totally burnt down within just a few hours difference. Considering ourselves lucky to be safe and sound. #fire #rodos

Important commitments today from The White House, Google and others to promote responsible AI development blog.google/outreach-initi…

Tip of the iceberg for GenAI - new features are now deploying on an almost weekly basis.

Really intresting stuff in this paper about how Google Red Team are using AI to hack into their own Gen AI systems during adversarial simulations. It also points to how Gen AI can be (sometimes easily) manipulated by bad actors. services.google.com/fh/files/blogs…

Iraq still needs a crash course in crisis management. This is such a disaster.
One disturbed irrelevant individual who no longer resides in Iraq dragged the entire country into a diplomatic crisis with the EU.

All sorts of discussions about #AI and #journalism going on here. Come and join me and some of my excellent @reuters colleagues to hear recent developments here and how we're thinking about things on July 27th at 3pm London time. Register here: events.reutersevents.com/poweringtruste…

Handy tool

Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles .
Reading between the lines is important.
“...these tools are not intended to, and cannot, replace the essential role journalists have in reporting, creating and fact-checking their articles,”
nytimes.com/2023/07/19/bus…

Ever wondered about using generative AI but weren't sure about the terms of use? Here's NHelberger is @[email protected] with a deep dive legal analysis of the ToU for five model providers: Open AI, Midjourney, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and StabilityAI: medium.com/generative-ai-…

I keep saying this over and over.
Tech companies have a lot to gain from tapping into journalistic expertise. Many of the existing generative tools require a deep understanding of (often shifting) information ecosystems, and the best place for that is in newsrooms.

'Looking back on previous human calamities, all of which will be dwarfed by this, you find yourself repeatedly asking “why didn’t they … ?” The answer is power: the power of a few to countermand the interests of humanity'
.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Love seeing fresh local talent reporting from their regions. BBC News (UK) doing an excellent job of this recently. Bravo Sofia Bettiza

Today in 'depressing-news-from-the-UK' and 'can-you-remind-me-why-I-live-here':
Forty years ago it took the average couple three years to save for a deposit to buy a home in the UK. Today it takes nine, rising to 15 in London.

on.ft.com/3pNxlEl

On my to-do list every evening after finishing project work.

1. get website done
2. get blogs done
3. read bookmarked pile

In reality, all that happens is...

This can't be real.

The Guardian announces launch of new European edition theguardian.com/gnm-press-offi…