Kicking off this panel on news avoidance featuring Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Ruth Palmer Benjamin Toff #ijf24

🎥Watch online
🧵 Key insights in thread
journalismfestival.com/programme/2024…

There’s now a Digiday reporter in Scotland! Welcome, Sam Bradley!

Yep, Meta’s mass and gravitational pull will be very hard to beat.

Haha…As someone with both a journalism degree and typewriter who started writing & reading poetry during the pandemic, this is very relatable.

Also perfect to see this tweet while I’m on track 25 of 31.

Here's my Digiday recap of yesterday's news about Meta's debut of Llama 3 and an updated Meta AI arriving across Meta's family of apps, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, a new standalone website for the ChatGPT rival. digiday.com/media/meta-ai-…

'What is the value of news for a platform', Jesper Doub, ex-Meta, is asked. 'None', he answers. Adds it might even be 'negative, a cost', given the friction. Points out his former employer seems able to walk away from news with no commercial loss (at least short-term). #ijf24

If you use Twitter you may wonder: why is everyone so extreme in their views?

It turns out that they aren’t, but an overlapping set of intentional and unintentional design choices suppresses the large number of moderate voices & amplifies extremists, with bad consequences for us

I wish Spotify would add a way to use an LLM to create playlists based on lyricals instead of band/genre/aesthetic.

1. How hard would that be?
2. Seems like there’s a way to do it without violating IP as long as NLP is used for analysis but not for text-generation, right?

Along with today's debut of Llama 3, Meta also is rolling out its AI chatbot across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and a new standalone Meta AI website.

What's everyone think?

New scoop: Palantir, the surveillance tech company with ties to the CIA, is courting advertising agencies, pitching its AI platform.

This comes as the ad industry tries to shed terms like 'tracking' and 'surveillance advertising'

marketingbrew.com/stories/2024/0…

New Llama just dropped. 🦙

Meta just released its new AI model, #Llama3 , so I had Meta AI imagine a Llama next to an AI in front of Meta HQ.

Amazon created a fake Japanese streetwear brand it sold on Shopify to get intel on competitors. Wild investigation from The Wall Street Journal sherwood.news/business/amazo…

Over 13% of all images on Adobe Stock are AI generated.

Most of the generated content comes from Dalle and Midjourney.

Media tagged 'fantasy' is 43% AI generated. Other tags are even higher

This is a large portion of the training data that fuels Adobe's AI, firefly

What might AI mean for the information ecosystem (including journalism)?

Was at Open Society Foundations workshop brainstorming future scenarios. Wide-ranging discussions & everyone will take different things from it. Thread w/some of mine (quotes anonymous as under Chatham House rules) 1/9

Amazon reported $40B US in 2023 so according to IAB that leaves $12B or 6% of digital ad spend to all outside the big platforms.

Adtech is fighting over peanuts not cookies.

A new generative AI tool from Brave Software lets users search for real-time info synthesized from multiple cited sources. The privacy-focused browser says its independent index was also 'curated and cleansed of SEO spam and junk content.'
My brief Digiday story: digiday.com/media/with-a-n…