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Fighting for journalism and profitable news media
When AI in journalism goes wrong | Allison Pearson cleared to sue police
And press flak jackets have become targets in war zones, warns Christina Lamb
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Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Monday, 27 April.
🤖 There’s no doubt that AI makes you more productive. But journalists using LLMs also walk a high wire where one wobble could see them fall to reputation-ending doom. This is because the nature of generative AI, and its propensity to make mistakes and invent facts, makes it particularly flawed when it comes to creating journalism.
(It’s worth noting that bad humans abusing AI for nefarious means are often at the heart of these cautionary tales.)
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Hopefully this will strike a blow against the recent unwelcome development of criminal complaints being abused to target journalists sharing content on social media.
In a similar case, former Telegraph journalist Greg Hadfield is facing a criminal trial because he drew attention to a pornographic message shared by former Labour MP Ivor Caplin on X.
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🪖 The killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil last week underlines a troubling truth. For certain regimes, journalists who step outside arbitrary red lines in conflict zones are under a sentence of death.
Sadly democracies America and Israel are among these rogue states as well as Russia, as we have seen in Ukraine.
In 2003, the US military killed ITN’s Terry Lloyd in Iraq despite the fact he was in a clearly marked press vehicle.
Khalil was sheltering from an earlier attack when she was killed despite pleas from the Lebanese president and the British Red Cross to allow rescuers to help her.
Lamb has called for an independent task force to be set up to investigate the killings of journalists, ending the current culture of impunity for the perpetrators of these crimes.
No one has ever been held to account for the dozens of journalists deliberately killed by Israel, the US and other states since 2003.
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