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The Peril and Promise of AI for Journalism
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) (2024), 13 pp.
"This report draws on insights from the workshop, along with recent academic and journalistic publishing. It highlights three major issues: How generative AI can make disinformation campaigns faster, more targeted, and more persuasive. How newsrooms’ adoption of AI tools can lead to inaccuracies a
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Foundation models are platform models: Prompting and the political economy of AI
Big Data & Society, issue April-June (2024), 15 pp.
"A recent innovation in the field of machine learning has been the creation of very large pre-trained models, also referred to as ‘foundation models’, that draw on much larger and broader sets of data than typical deep learning systems and can be applied to a wide variety of tasks. Underpinning
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Vilify, ridicule, disinform: Political communication and media trust in the age of generative AI
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation; Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2024), 23 pp.
"This report examines political communication and media trust in the age of generative artificial intelligence systems (AI). Firstly, it provides a brief explainer of generative AI tools and techniques, looking separately at systems that generate text and those that generate or manipulate images, vi
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How InkubaLM is Revolutionizing Locally-Led Development in Africa
ICTworks, September 26 (2024)
"Language diversity on the African continent is both a cultural strength and a technological challenge. With over 2,000 spoken languages, mainstream artificial intelligence tools have largely ignored the vast majority of African languages, creating a significant barrier to the full participation of
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User empowerment through Media and Information Literacy responses to the evolution of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI)
Paris: UNESCO (2024), 16 pp.
"The goal of this policy brief is to demonstrate how stakeholders can apply the lens of Media and Information Literacy for all to Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI/GAI) to address its risks and opportunities in the information and digital ecologies. A special focus is on
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Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
Time, January 18 (2023)
"[...] ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI, is now reportedly in talks with investors to raise funds at a $29 billion valuation, including a potential $10 billion investment by Microsoft. That would make OpenAI, which was founded in San Francisco in 2015 with the aim of building superintelligent machines, o
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AI: Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 288 pp.
"The emergence of artificial intelligence has triggered enthusiasm and promise of boundless opportunities as much as uncertainty about its limits. The contributions to this volume explore the limits of AI, describe the necessary conditions for its functionality, reveal its attendant technical and so
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"AI tools, from ChatGPT to Google Translate, are useless to billions of people in the Global South who don't work in western languages. Researchers and startups from Africa and other parts of the world are changing that." (Introduction)
Gauging Generative AI’s Impact on Newsrooms. Survey: Newsroom Executives Share Their Experience So Far
Frankfurt am Main: WAN-IFRA (2023), 21 pp.
ChatGPT and the Global South: How Are Journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa Engaging with Generative AI?
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 2, issue 2 (2023), pp. 228-249
"The study highlights that generative AI like ChatGPT operates on a limited and non-representative African corpus, making it selective on what is considered civil and uncivil language, thus limiting its effectiveness in the region. However, the study also suggests that in the absence of representati
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Is ChatGPT a Friend or Foe in the War on Misinformation? A South African Perspective
Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa, volume 42, issue 2 (2023), pp. 3-16
"The release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 met with fears and optimism. One particularly important avenue of research that is emerging revolves around ChatGPT's ability to provide accurate and unbiased information on a variety of topics. Given the interest that Google and Microsoft have shown in sim
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Taking the Pulse: A Rapid Survey of Generative AI Applications in Indonesia's Development Sector
Kopernik (2023), 42 pp.
"The survey found that 13% of respondents’ organizations are very familiar with Gen AI, while an additional 46% possess a basic awareness. Among those who stated they had basic to good familiarity with Gen AI, 38% reported using it either daily or very frequently. The most common use of Gen AI was
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Value based guidance for Generative AI
Bonn: Welthungerhilfe (2023), 1 p.
