The Media Minute 7.15.26

Let Them Talk: The Best AI Tools For All Publishing Departments

The power of AI didn’t magically appear with ChatGPT.

But it sure feels that way sometimes, doesn’t it?

Media professionals have been nursing the same AI-induced carpal tunnel symptoms as every other human, but with an added case of whiplash ever since a particularly powerful version of OpenAI’s interactive language model debuted in November 2022.

 

Claude’s Ability To Remix ‘Liquid Content’ Is ‘Serious Challenge For News Media’

Media research expert Nic Newman has warned the ability of AI models to provide “liquid content” in different formats is a “really serious challenge” to news media. Speaking at the Media Voices Publisher Summit in London … Newman had a slide that said “AI can do what journalists do quicker and better.” But the Reuters Institute senior research associate (and former lead author of the annual Digital News Report) explained publishers see their future in content that is original and distinctive.

 

The ChatGPT Browser Is Already Dead 

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work … the company confirmed that it will be “sunsetting” Atlas and is targeting an August 9th date for deprecation. 

 

LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests

A shocking amount of the content that users encounter on popular social media websites is likely AI generated, according to data from a company that detects AI writing. As much as 41 percent of longform written content seen by users on LinkedIn is likely to be fully AI-generated and roughly a third of longer posts on X are AI-generated; roughly one-in-ten longer Reddit and Substack posts are AI, according to the data. 

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