This election week, USA Today Co. journalists are withholding their bylines to protest an AI chatbot that produces false information. The company’s response: show the bot to "only" 1% of subscribers. That’s not enough.
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Yesterday, @BusinessInsider hosted “The Long Play,” an event that touts itself as bringing together “influential leaders and executives” to “shape what comes next and to think strategically about how to withstand cycles, crises, and waves of new technology.”
🚨NEW: Journalists at two Ohio newspapers owned by USA TODAY Co. are withholding their bylines from stories featuring an AI bot that shares inaccurate information. The tool violates the company’s standards of requiring a “human in the loop,” raising editorial integrity concerns.
Tribune Publishing is refusing to put its own AI policy in union contracts.
✉️ Send a letter to management today demanding they respect their staff and readers by agreeing to commonsense AI guardrails.
🧵 Our union — a team of dozens of reporters, editors, graphic designers, and videographers — is currently fighting for sensible AI protections in our workplace. We believe in three basic principles when it comes to artificial intelligence in our newsroom:
"Labor law currently...is working for the billionaire and the oligarch class and not for regular workers," said NewsGuild president @gaufre on the @RickSmithShow.
"We have to reform but it's only going to happen if we all stand up together."
1. Journalism is human-led.
2. AI can’t take our jobs.
3. Workers should be able to choose whether they use AI tools in their work.
These principles are vital to a future in which our journalism continues to be accurate, trustworthy, and engaging. (2/7)
Our union is currently negotiating for sensible AI protections in our workplace. We believe in three basic principles when it comes to artificial intelligence in our newsroom: (1/7)
McClatchy laid off 90+ talented journalists and media workers this month.
Workers are all in to continue producing high-quality journalism for their communities.
Write a letter to McClatchy asking what their priorities are: actionnetwork.org/letters/as…
This morning, Secret Service barred our own @PENGuild member Cheyenne Haslett from the White House simply for doing her job.
Press access cannot be weaponized against journalists for their reporting. An attack on one outlet's ability to cover the White House is an attack on a free press for all of us.
We stand with our member and every journalist targeted for doing their job.
Tonight there's a lavish gala celebrating the 175th anniversary of @nytimes. Our @NYTimesGuild members invited themselves -- to let the bosses know it's time for a FAIR CONTRACT NOW.
Yesterday, this company told Guild members we have to "dig deeper" to cover the costs of our health care. Today, its executives rang the opening bell at the the NYSE.
ALT Managers of The New York Times ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange under a sign that says "The New York Times 175"
Major win for press freedom: today a federal judge agreed with us and issued a preliminary injunction blocking new restrictions on foreign journalists and students newsguild.org/judge-blocks-n…
To say that the execs at @mcclatchy should be ashamed of their actions, which are harming the readers they profess to value, is understatement. We stand in full solidarity with all our siblings at @mcclatchy who deserve better.
newsguild.org/mcclatchy-laid…
Our management laid off more than 20 non-union coworkers yesterday on the Product & Technology team in the seventh round of layoffs here in four years.
We stand in solidarity with our laid-off colleagues and ask BI CEO Christian Baesler for answers. Our statement: