✎ Asahi Shimbun 日本《朝日新聞》 ｜20240216

VOX POPULI: Young texters have rendered punctuation marks obsolete

VOX POPULI評論：年輕一代的簡訊使用者認為使用標點符號過時了

I am in my 50s. I checked my cellphone’s history and confirmed that I have always used punctuation in all my texts as a matter of course, including those sent to young people.But not one text I’d received from them was punctuated.With a jolt, I saw this for what it is–a generation gap.Wondering if this “no punctuation” phenomenon is peculiar to Japan, I asked my friends in Europe, Southeast Asia and South America.

✎ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 牛津路透新聞研究所｜20240216

I created an AI tool to help investigative journalists find stories in audit reports. Here’s how I did it and why it matters

我建立了一個人工智慧工具，幫助調查記者在政府的審計報告中找到報導題材。 我是怎麼做到的？以及它為何重要？

Filipino journalist Jaemark Tordecilla created a custom GPT to advance watchdog journalism. Because journalists have limited attention and newsrooms increasingly have even more limited resources, he investigated whether AI could help augment journalists’ capacity to go through audit reports looking for clues that could uncover anomalies.

✎ VOA 美國之音｜20240217

Some Creators Celebrate New AI-Video Tool; Others Worry About Abuse

一些創作者正為新的人工智慧影片工具歡欣；其他則是擔心工具遭濫用

A new artificial intelligence tool that promises to create short videos from simple text commands has raised concerns along with questions from artists and media professionals.

✎ The Korea Times 《韓國時報》｜20240219

Netflix, YouTube unlikely to budge on Korea's call for lowering streaming fees

韓國呼籲降低串流媒體費用　而Netflix及YouTube不太可能為此讓步

The government’s ongoing efforts to curb rising streaming fees are expected to weigh only on Korean service providers without exerting much influence on market-dominant global players, such as Netflix and YouTube, according to industry officials, Monday.

✎ PRESS GAZETTE 英國《新聞公報》｜20240219

Daily Mail faces £100K claim from Labour donor pictured next to 'sex harassment' headline

英國《每日郵報》以標題暗示工黨資助者「性騷擾」 將面臨求償10萬英鎊

Founder of green energy supplier Ecotricity Dale Vince says headline, image and captains libelled him.

✎ PRESS GAZETTE 英國《新聞公報》｜20240221

ABCs: UK digital magazine sales surge boosted by Spotify-style bundled subscriptions

美國廣播公司ABC報導：藉由類似Spotify的綑綁式訂閱　英國數位雜誌銷量激增

Digital edition sales appear to have been significantly inflated by “all you can read” sales – i.e. readers purchasing access to titles via third-party bundled magazine offerings such as Readily.But Publishers are not paid a full subscription price for these sales but instead get a royalty fee based on a Spotify-style model (likely to be a small fraction of the subscription price).

✎ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 牛津路透新聞學研究所｜20240222

How many news websites block AI crawlers?

多少新聞網站封鎖了AI爬蟲機器人？

In this factsheet we describe the proportion of top news websites in ten countries that block AI (artificial intelligence) crawlers. Companies such as OpenAI (who make ChatGPT) and Google (who make Gemini, formerly called Bard) use crawlers to scrape data from websites to train large language models (LLMs). They can also be used to retrieve information from websites in real time in response to user requests. But if websites choose to block crawlers (and no other arrangement is made), none of this is permitted, with consequences for the quality of the underlying models and their ability to retrieve information from the web.

✎ NIEMAN LAB 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20240222

Google tests removing the News tab from search results

Google嘗試從搜尋結果中移除新聞標籤

The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won’t help publishers sleep any easier.dd>

整理、編譯：胡安妤、蔡宏杰