Media Bits and Bytes – March 18, 2025
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MAGA media mishigas
MAGA media mishigas
MAGA media mishigas
How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations
ProPublica
When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.
MAGA Newspaper Owner’s AI Bot Defends KKK
The Daily Beast
An AI-generated summary tried to offer “different views” on the hate group.
Techno-Fascism Comes to America
The New Yorker
An unelected tech billionaire has so much power over the government. Tech titans fell in line behind Trump, MAGA-style populism is giving way to an optimization-oriented vision for the country’s future. Historic parallels help explain Musk’s rampage.
Friday Nite Videos | February 6, 2025
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Trump Proposes Gaza Takeover | The Daily Show. Elon Musk: Party in the USA (Song Parody). What is Hugging Face? Could AI Wipe Out Mainstream Media? Mo: Season 2 Trailer | Netflix.
What is Hugging Face?
Hugging Face is a revolutionary platform for AI, transforming the AI landscape by providing cutting-edge tools and fostering collaboration among AI developers worldwide.
Could AI Wipe Out Mainstream Media?
Channel 1 is a new rolling news channel with a difference - its stories are scripted, edited and presented by AI.
Media Bits and Bytes – February 4, 2025
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The exodus from mainstream media
Sunday Science: How China’s New AI Model DeepSeek Is Threatening U.S. Dominance
CNBC
The new developments have raised alarms on whether America’s global lead in artificial intelligence is shrinking and called into question big tech’s massive spend on building AI models and data centers.
Venture Capitalists in the Defence Industry
The Conversation
I’m a propagandist, I’ll twist the truth, I’ll put forward only my version of it if I think that’s going to propagandise people to believe what I need them to believe.
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