Checking The News: What Natural News-Skepticism Means for AI

As AI weaves its way into our normal Search habits, its inclusion in our news-habits is only more and more likely to be intertwined if not front-and-center.

Fortunately, Americans consider some arms-crossed skepticism as much a part of being a responsible news consumer as just staying informed.

 

Publishers Versus Bots: How Trusted Reviews Is Fighting Back Against LLMs

Whilst interviewing Candr CEO Chris Dicker he reels off the names of the bots scraping its flagship site – Trusted Reviews – and stealing its content. … He works with Cloudflare and Tollbit to control and catalogue the bot attacks, but still they come. [They] appear to be third-party scrapers – effectively content traffickers – who then sell content on to LLMs.

 

For The Record: The Case For The Wayback Machine Archive 

Three major news organizations – The New York Times, The Guardian and Reddit – are blocking access to their content because they fear their content will be scraped by AI crawlers and used without permission. It’s easy to understand their feeling. AI-scraping is one of the biggest problems facing publishers today. They are losing money and traffic to this nefarious practice. But let’s look at the Wayback side of it. …

 

Rank And AI Citation Aren’t The Same Number

The length gap is real and well-documented, with some measurements describing ChatGPT prompts running an order of magnitude longer than a typical Google query by character count. None of that tells you what to do on Monday. The part that should change how you read your own reporting is not the length of the input; it is what two different systems do with the same string when you start measuring across both of them at the same time.