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Excellent research by my colleagues at Tow Center . #ChatGPT search generating more "hallucinations" than a 19th century mystic... #AI Study of ChatGPT citations makes dismal reading for publishers techcrunch.com/2024/11/29/stu… via @techcrunch

I have a new piece out with Aisvarya (Aishi) Chandrasekar in Columbia Journalism Review Tow Center in which we test how OpenAI's new search feature surfaces and attributes news content. Our findings were not promising for news publishers (1/9) cjr.org/tow_center/how…

A new study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism (Tow Center) looks at how #ChatGPT produces citations (i.e. sources) for publishers’ content - and the findings are concerning. (via @techcrunch) brnw.ch/21wPahI

🙏 Columbia Daily Spectator for this piece on the work of Tow Center. Great to have the chance to contribute my experiences, alongside emily bell and new insights from Peter Brown and Andrea Wenzel (@andreawenzel.bsky.social). V. grateful for the opportunities I've had to work with them! columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2024/1…

We love Damien - he’s a great media scholar and an excellent colleague and presence in the field. Thanks too to the Columbia Daily Spectator for taking an interest in what we do Tow Center

My article for @cjr Tow Center on how #AI #podcast tools (inc #NotebookLM) can be used to produce very persuasive/realistic political #propaganda. I even made my own podcast - can you tell if it's humans or robots...? Plotting with podcasts cjr.org/tow_center/plo… via @cjr

Tow Center analysis finds that publishers face the risk of their content being misattributed or misrepresented regardless of whether or not they allow OpenAI’s crawlers. Aisvarya (Aishi) Chandrasekar klaudia jaźwińska cjr.org/tow_center/how…

New from Tow: AI tools are generating ultra-realistic customized podcasts that can be used for a variety of legitimate purposes. The Tow Center tests how they can also create misleading content and propaganda. Stuart Anderson-Davis cjr.org/tow_center/plo…

The Notebook LM capabilities …the latest in a long list of something to worry about if you care about legitimate journalism

From January: The local news crisis has created a scramble to find ways to revive and sustain local journalism. Outlets funded by dark money have no such concerns; dark money is the business model... Pete Brown Priyanjana Bengani Andrea Wenzel (@andreawenzel.bsky.social) cjr.org/tow_center/pin…

An in-depth look inside Tow Center, their research, and why they believe "community is at the heart of journalism." columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2024/1…

From February: "Despite reservations in some quarters of the news industry, the adoption of “platform AI” is largely viewed as a pragmatic choice driven by economic challenges..." Felix M. Simon cjr.org/tow_center_rep…

Using large language models to conduct source audits of the news, from the Tow Center. cjr.org/tow_center/unh…

Tow researchers klaudia jaźwińska & Aisvarya (Aishi) Chandrasekar tested Grok-3's ability to identify quotes from news publishers. Out of the 200 quotes tested, 102 returned hallucinated citations and the original source article was correctly cited only nine times. cjr.org/the_media_toda…

Can LLMs be helpful in creating source audits? The Tow Center helped a reporter who spent 15 years covering Afghanistan identify who got to shape the narrative. cjr.org/tow_center/unh…

NEW: klaudia jaźwińska and Aisvarya (Aishi) Chandrasekar ran 1600 queries across eight generative AI search tools to see how they cite news content. They all did pretty poorly. Columbia Journalism Review Columbia Journalism School cjr.org/tow_center/we-…

🔍 AI Search Engines: popular, but potentially problematic. A new study from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism reveals the hidden pitfalls in AI-powered search, like misattribution, misinformation and missing citations: cjr.org/tow_center/we-…

What Journalists Should Know About Deepfake Detection in 2025, by Kaylee Williams of the Tow Center. cjr.org/tow_center/wha…

New: In an effort to help those with relatively little technical training navigate the rapidly changing world of deepfakes, we highlighted just a few overarching findings that journalists should know about deepfake detection. Kaylee Williams Columbia Journalism Review cjr.org/tow_center/wha…

The latest from the Tow Center: We interviewed news and tech industry representatives about AI’s impact on platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation. klaudia jaźwińska Columbia Journalism Review Columbia Journalism School cjr.org/the_media_toda…