On this episode Joshua will talk about "forced reads" in journalism, how many media outlets are switching the AI generated articles, what happens with algorithms go haywire, and ideas about hacking machine learning systems.
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Some references for this episode:
https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/aug/08/rise-of-the-racist-robots-how-ai-is-learning-all-our-worst-impulses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar_Media_Group https://www.npr.org/2018/04/02/598916366/sinclair-broadcast-group-forces-nearly-200-station-anchors-to-read-same-script https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/business/media/sinclair-news-anchors-script.html https://algorithmwatch.org/en/google-vision-racism/ https://www.aiweirdness.com/when-algorithms-surprise-us-18-04-13/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210420142055/https://www.forbes.com/sites/calumchace/2020/08/24/the-impact-of-ai-on-journalism/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-apologises-psychological-experiments-on-users https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54k7WrbfMg http://mediashift.org/2016/09/4-examples-ais-rise-journalism-means-journalists/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/allmetsports/2016-fall/games/football/87473/ https://emerj.com/ai-sector-overviews/automated-journalism-applications/ https://knightfoundation.org/articles/the-present-and-potential-of-ai-in-journalism/ https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/7/21315861/ai-generated-headshots-profile-pictures-fake-journalists-daily-beast-investigation https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/hacking-ai/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/02/20/how-ai-driven-systems-can-be-hacked/?sh=29ab234b79df https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/coming-ai-hackers#:~:text=Artificial%20intelligence%E2%80%94AI%E2%80%94is%20an,It%20consists%20of%20software.&text=And%20two%2C%20AI%20systems%20will,speed%2C%20scale%2C%20and%20scope. https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/10/07/244656/algorithms-probably-caused-a-flash-crash-of-the-british-pound/