Another newsletter, another week in AI advances – and failures. In this issue, Kieran Lindsay covers some of the recent AI news, highlighting ongoing issues of accuracy, bias and legal liability. Shaun Davies drills down into the growing problem of deepfake videos, which just got a lot easier to make thanks to OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator, Sora. He asks Bryce Craig, lawyer at Gilbert + Tobin, what legal protections we have as individuals, and as a body politic. Turning to the news industry, Nick Newling and Ayesha Jehangir’s piece looks at new site The Nightly. Is it the knight in shining armour Australia’s been waiting for? Or will it go the way of vice.com, the latest high-profile site to crash and burn?
In our latest podcast episode, Monica talks to new ABC chair Kim Williams about objectivity in journalism, and this week we also announce the launch event for our report Gen AI and Journalism. We can promise a fascinating panel discussion featuring three of the editors we interviewed for the report as well as copyright expert Professor Isabella Alexander. Grab your tickets from the link below! Read it in full here:
Michael Davis, CMT Research Fellow