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Ukraine US TV News Coverage Continues In Steady State

US television news coverage of Ukraine continues in a steady state, as seen in the timeline below.

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Crypto Has Been Soaring In The News This Year

Cryptocurrency mentions have been soaring in global news since the start of this year: View Live Graph.

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Bridging Nations: Quantifying The Role Of Multilinguals In Communication On Social Media

Social media enables the rapid spread of many kinds of information, from memes to social movements. However, little is known…

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Visual Channel Comparer: A Look At How CNN, MSNBC & Fox News Covered Trump's Arraignment

Last November we showcased how the Visual Channel Comparer can be used to visually compare the coverage of television news…

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Charleston Conference: The Future Of Scholarly Communication In A ChatGPT World

Kalev spoke today at the Charleston Conference's Charleston In Between event "The Future Of Scholarly Communication In A ChatGPT World":…

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Politico: How To Tell What's Real Online

Kalev is quoted in an article in Politico today on deepfakes and online falsehoods in a generative world. Read the…

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Building A Global Streaming Video Biden, Putin & Zelenskyy Scanner In Just A Few Lines Of Code

Last month we demonstrated applying facial scanning to Russian television news to catalog all of the appearances of Tucker Carlson…

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Facial Co-Occurrence At Scale As A Way Of Understanding The Narrative Landscape Of Television News

Over the past month we've explored the ability of facial analysis to help us understand the narrative landscape of television…

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RealClearMarkets: Don't Rework Section 230, Pursue Private Rating System Instead

An article in today's RealClearMarkets uses the TV Explorer to track coverage of Section 230. Read The Full Article.

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Visual Explorer: Using An Embedding Database To Search A Year Of Russian TV News' 60 Minutes For Zelenskyy In Near-Realtime

Last month we demonstrated searching a year of Russian television news' 60 Minutes to find all appearances of Tucker Carlson….

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Visual Explorer: Visualizing The Network Of Facial Co-Occurrences Of A Year Of Russian TV News' 60 Minutes

Last month we visualized the network of who appeared alongside whom in an episode of Russian TV news' "60 Minutes"…

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This Week: Charleston Conference: The Future Of Scholarly Communication In A ChatGPT World

Kalev will be speaking at the Charleston Conference's Charleston In Between event "The Future Of Scholarly Communication In A ChatGPT…

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Visual Explorer: 1.8 Billion Words Of Onscreen Captioning Now Displayed For CSPAN, CSPAN2 & CSPAN3

For more than a decade the Internet Archive's TV News Archive  has been archiving CSPAN and CSPAN2 (since June 4,…

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Using ChatGPT + CSPAN To Automatically Identify Mentions Of House Resolutions & Bills In Congressional Transcripts

Could we use ChatGPT to analyze a CSPAN broadcast of a House of Representatives session and automatically identify all mentions…

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Using ChatGPT + CSPAN To Enhance The Transcripts Of Our Nation's Congressional Lawmaking

Yesterday we demonstrated the ability of ChatGPT to enhance hand-typed television news transcripts by converting them from endless streams of…

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Using ChatGPT To Enhance Hand-Generated Television News Closed Captioning

Hand-generated television news closed captioning in the US is typically exclusively upper or lower case and is often riddled with…

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Hallucination In Summarization: When ChatGPT Hallucinated New Stories In An Evening News Broadcast

Yesterday we compared how OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard summarize a television evening news broadcast. Look closely and you'll spot…

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Google's Bard Vs OpenAI's ChatGPT: Summarizing An ABC Evening News Broadcast

Last month we explored using OpenAI's ChatGPT to summarize an ABC Evening News broadcast, testing its ability to look across…

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WashPost: How Marjorie Taylor Greene Became The Queen Of The GOP Fringe

The Washington Post's David Byler includes an analysis of media coverage of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Read The Full Article.

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Fully Autonomous Diplomacy + Counter-Messaging Experiments With ChatGPT + GDELT + Midjourney v5

Yesterday we demonstrated the use of ChatGPT in a fully autonomous counter-messaging pipeline, designed to automatically monitor television news coverage…

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The "Metaverse" Is Still Getting Attention On The News

As a growing list of companies pivot away from the metaverse, television, business and online news are still mentioning the…

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Replacing Bespoke AI Categorization Models By Using ChatGPT To Create Instant Models

Could ChatGPT be used to create instant categorization models that perform the same task as bespoke models trained on large…

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Fully Autonomous Diplomacy + Counter-Messaging Experiments With ChatGPT + GDELT

Given the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to craft human-like prose, how easily could they be used…

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SMA EUCOM: Exploring A Year Of Russian Television News’ Propaganda Landscape Through AI: From Speech & Visual Analysis To ChatGPT

Kalev spoke today as part of the DOD SMA (Strategic Multilayer Assessment) EUCOM speaker series in a talk titled "Exploring…