Although whistleblowers are rare, they are powerful sources for uncovering corruption in businesses and government. Their impact is widely felt, from Deep Throat providing clues about the Watergate scandal to former employees of the tech startup Theranos revealing that the company was putting its customers’ health at risk. But what are the ground rules for journalists when interviewing whistleblowers?
Polls got a bad rap after the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections because they were so far off the actual results. So what happened? And which polls should we look at for this election?
Meet yet another AI chatbot called Grok. Grok is Elon Musk’s version of ChatGPT with one big difference: access to real-time information on the social media platform X. This means Grok can respond to prompts about current events or viral posts.
Here’s another unique feature: Grok answers questions with “a bit of wit and a rebellious streak” according to the X AI team. It can also respond to “spicy questions” other AI bots reject.
It is high season for election interference, with multiple foreign actors trying to influence American voters with all kinds of misleading content. While this kind of disinformation is not a new phenomenon, intelligence experts say it is an “unprecedented threat in 2024 and that the US is less ready than ever,” according to NBC News.
If you ask Tucker Carlson, we know what he would say. In fact, he already said it.
Did you witness the earth-shattering news live? NFL football star Travis Kelce, fresh off a Super Bowl victory with the Kansas City Chiefs, had just taken a private jet to Sydney, Australia to see his girlfriend Taylor Swift. She was on a concert tour stop there. And OMG, you’d never guess what happened next.
Sora is the latest AI-powered tool from OpenAI, so new that it’s only available to a few select researchers, academics and visual artists. This software generates highly realistic videos from short snippets of text, like “historical footage of California in the gold rush.” After typing in that description, presto! Sora generates a high-resolution video in a fraction of the time it would take a digital artist to create it and way faster than actually filming that scene on-site with actors, props, lighting and cameras.
This is not a hypothetical question or distant possibility; AI-generated content is already influencing voters. Although many state and federal lawmakers are scrambling to safeguard the upcoming election, a growing number of experts are sounding the alarm, warning that the U.S. is woefully unprepared for the growing threat from AI-generated propaganda and disinformation. In the 14 months since ChatGPT’s debut, this new AI technology is flooding the internet with lies, reshaping the political landscape and even challenging our concept of reality.
One cold morning in November 2020, I was running in Brooklyn with my friend James. We often talked about the various clubs that compose the competitive running scene we inhabit. Sometimes we shared gossip about who was switching to a new club, or which club was falling apart, or who was dating whom. On this particular run we wondered if one of New York’s most dominant clubs, West Side Runners, would still exist after the pandemic.
You may be surprised to learn that news organizations like The Associated Press, have been using some form of artificial intelligence since 2014.
