Nick Diakopoulos

Northwestern Prof. of Computational Journalism. On sabbatical in Amsterdam at UvA. nickdiakopoulos.com/

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-11-14

New from @sachnishal.bsky.social on the Generative AI in the Newsroom blog -- fine-tuning, prompting, and evaluation of news angle generation: generative-ai-newsroom.com/get

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-10-05

Interested in doing a PhD in Human Computer Interaction, Computational Social Science, or something else at the intersection of Tech + Society? The School of Communication and School of Engineering joint program in Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) is hosting a virtual information session to answer your questions. Register and join to learn more! tinyurl.com/tsbphd

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-09-05

How can you know if your content was used to train an AI model like GPT-3 or 4? In this post I show that OpenAI's models appear to have memorized boilerplate text from the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Economist. generative-ai-newsroom.com/fin

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-07-18

Ever wondered about using generative AI but weren't sure about the terms of use? Here's @Nhelberger with a deep dive legal analysis of the ToU for five model providers: Open AI, Midjourney, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and StabilityAI: medium.com/generative-ai-in-th

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2023-07-18

#InTheMedia 🗞️The rise of Generative #ArtificialIntelligence has raised questions about the use of this technology in #journalism. @hannescools wrote about the importance of newsroom guidelines for #GenerativeAI on @medium with @ndiakopoulos. Read about their analysis and suggestions 👉 generative-ai-newsroom.com/tow

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Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-07-10

One of the questions that comes up over and over again for newsrooms is what guidelines to put in place for using generative AI. Working together with @hannescools we analyzed 21 existing guidelines documents and also made a few suggestions for others thinking about developing their own: generative-ai-newsroom.com/tow

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-07-06

Here's an inspiring story of how @MarshallProj is using generative AI to help structure and summarize complex bureaucratic policy documents for its audience: generative-ai-newsroom.com/dec

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-05-11

News article headlines suggested using OpenAI's models in the YESEO app were helpful for a majority of journalists in their editorial process. Read about the study from Ryan Restivo here: generative-ai-newsroom.com/how

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JoĂŁo Pedro Quintaisjpquintais@akademienl.social
2023-05-10

Generative AI, Copyright and the #AI Act, my new post on the #KluwerCopyrightBlog

Thanks to Thomas Margoni, Martin Kretchmer Alina Trapova & @ndiakopoulos for comments on earlier versions of this post

copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/

It's a long post so the TLDR is 👇

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-05-05

"In this way we were able to add very useful content to the rule-based auto-generated articles, and augment the articles with insights and explanations presented in the company’s financial reports."

News document summaries in Danish using Open AI Models, published by Ekstra Bladet. With enough tries it works, but still very much a need for human in the loop. New from Tore G. C. Rich on the Generative AI in the Newsroom Blog: generative-ai-newsroom.com/sum

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JoĂŁo Pedro Quintaisjpquintais@akademienl.social
2023-04-26

It was great fun writing with @ndiakopoulos this extended Primer and FAQ on #copyright law and generative #AI for journalists and news organizations

generative-ai-newsroom.com/a-p

#chatgpt #midjourney #fairuse #tdm

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-04-26

Here's an extended primer and FAQ on copyright law and generative AI written for journalists and news organizations, with suggestions for responsible use. By JoĂŁo Pedro Quintais and me. Read here: medium.com/generative-ai-in-th

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-03-28

@j2kun I believe there are also some result out there about visuals attracting homepage clicks. Makes sense that people’s attention is attracted to pictures…

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-03-27

@j2kun yes, there are SEO results on the value of visual illustration for attracting attention (clicks)

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-03-27

Generative AI is a potentially powerful tool to help illustrate news articles and visually draw in readers. Check out @lydiachilton's new primer on how to get started: generative-ai-newsroom.com/new

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-03-24

Can GPT-4 help cover news events? Here's an event summary of a recent AI Media Democracy Lab panel on the legal aspects of generative AI, using Whisper for transcription and a few targeted prompts to GPT-4. Don't forget the human in the loop: generative-ai-newsroom.com/can

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AI, Media & Democracy Labaim4dem@akademienl.social
2023-03-07

Visiting member @ndiakopoulos presenting at our #TuesdAI at IAS: "When aligning values with AI systems, there’s a lot of engineering, iteration, defining clearly, and including an evaluation loop that is just not quantitative". Thanks for sharing your insights, Nick!

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-03-06

What if AI could scan the world for events and information and send an alert when something looked interesting? In this post I look at how to use @OpenAI models to rate the newsworthiness of scientific abstracts. TLDR, it works pretty well! generative-ai-newsroom.com/fin

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-03-03

@cyberlyra @josh @jeffjarvis there are bridging initiatives like this one: journalistsresource.org. If you want your own work part of the public debate IMO you’re best off writing the op ed yourself and pitching it. Why be mediated when you can write it directly as the expert?

Nick Diakopoulosndiakopoulos@hci.social
2023-02-28

The goal of the Generative AI in the Newsroom project is to collectively develop the capacity for responsible use of generative AI in news production. Follow here: generative-ai-newsroom.com/the

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