✎ MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW 美國《麻省理工科技評論》｜20230403

Three ways AI chatbots are a security disaster

人工智慧聊天機器人造成安全災難的三種方式

AI language models are the shiniest, most exciting thing in tech right now. But they’re poised to create a major new problem: they are ridiculously easy to misuse and to deploy as powerful phishing or scamming tools. No programming skills are needed. What’s worse is that there is no known fix.

✎ INTELLIGENCER 美國紐約綜合媒體《Intelligencer》｜20230330

Millennials Aren’t Killing ‘Objective’ News — the Market Is

千禧世代並未扼殺客觀新聞　兇手是市場

In this account, objectivity is the opposite of reflexive neutrality. It is “not false balance or both-sidesism” and does not give “equal weight to opposing arguments when the evidence points overwhelmingly in one direction,” Baron writes. Rather, objectivity demands the dogged and disinterested pursuit of the truth, even when that truth may challenge the prejudices of one’s subscriber base or the political imperatives of one’s government.

✎ THE GUARDIAN 英國《衛報》｜20230331

BBC journalists to strike during local elections over radio cuts

BBC記者選在地方選舉期間罷工反對削減地方廣播

BBC journalists in England have announced a second 24-hour strike, to run from midnight on 5 May to coincide with the reporting of local election results, in a dispute over cuts to local radio.

✎ Pew Research Center 美國皮尤研究中心｜20230404

U.S. journalists’ beats vary widely by gender and other factors

美國記者報導內容因性別及其他因素而有顯著差異

The survey asked reporting journalists to identify up to three topic areas or beats that they cover regularly, 11 of which had large enough sample sizes to study. Men are far more likely than women to cover certain beats – especially sports – while journalists who are women are more likely than men to cover news about social issues, education and health.

✎ Press Gazette 英國《新聞公報》｜20230405

Google core update in March has ‘comparatively mild’ impact on news publishers

Google三月份進行搜尋引擎核心更新　對新聞業的衝擊「相對溫和」

Google‘s latest core algorithm update had less of an impact on news publishers’ search visibility than the last major update six months earlier, new data suggests.

✎ Journalism.co.uk 英國新聞網站《Journalism.co.uk》｜20230404

Climate journalism can improve audience engagement and business models

氣候新聞可提升閱聽人參與度及商業模式

In times of crisis, public interest journalism is sought-after and highly valuable. And make no mistake, the climate is a crisis, says a new EBU report

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