A new study reveals that news publishers blocking large language model crawlers have experienced a 7% drop in weekly website traffic within six weeks, raising concerns over the trade-off between preventing AI training and maintaining audience reach. A new working paper from Rutgers Business School and The Wharton School says news publishers that used robots.txt to block large language model crawlers lost about 7% of weekly website traffic within six weeks, with the decline showing up in human browsing data rather than only in bot-related measurements. The latest version of the study, released on SSRN earlier this month and revised…
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South Africa’s government has pulled its draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy after discovering fictitious sources in the document, raising questions over AI-generated research and the policy’s credibility amid political and industry scrutiny. South Africa’s communications and digital technologies minister, Solly Malatsi, has withdrawn the country’s draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy…
South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies has withdrawn a draft AI policy after discovering that parts of its reference list contained fabricated citations, highlighting the growing risks of AI-generated misinformation in government procedures. South Africa’s Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi has withdrawn the draft National Artificial…
An investigation reveals that The Wire by Acutus, an AI-driven publication, may be used to promote pro-AI agendas, raising concerns over transparency and the influence of lobbying efforts in digital journalism. A new investigation has raised fresh questions about the blurred line between editorial content and artificial intelligence advocacy, after…
The rise of AI-created tracks now accounts for nearly half of all uploads on Deezer, triggering debates over authenticity, copyright, and artist royalties amid soaring synthetic content and misuse concerns. The music industry is grappling with an explosion of AI-generated tracks that is beginning to reshape streaming platforms, royalty systems…
As AI image models improve, distinguishing real photographs from synthetic scenes becomes increasingly difficult, prompting a shift towards verifying provenance to maintain trust in visual storytelling. It is becoming harder to trust the first glance. In street and documentary photography, images that once read as unmistakably real can now be…
While standards like C2PA aim to verify image authorship through cryptographic metadata, social media workflows often strip this data, prompting interest in more resilient solutions like perceptual hashing for protecting photographers’ recognition in a rapidly sharing digital landscape. For photographers, the hardest part of a viral image is often not…
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