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Early Findings With Gender, Racial & Cultural Bias In Generative AI Embeddings, Models & Guardrails

As we continue to explore how various generative AI offerings from different companies perform across global news coverage, one area…

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LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: Summarizing A Video Second-By-Second With Keywords & Descriptions

As we continue our experiments with having Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro model visually analyze a 6-minute video clip from Russian…

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LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: The Instability Of Summarizing Video

Yesterday we explored Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro model's video analysis capabilities by asking it to analyze a 6-minute clip of…

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LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: First Results From Watching A Russian TV News Clip

One of the most powerful capabilities of Google's new Large Multimodal Model (LMM) Gemini 1.5 Pro model is its ability…

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How We Transcribed 2.5 Million Hours Of TV News In Just 7 Days & How We Could Have Finished In A Single Afternoon

On Wednesday, we announced in collaboration with the Internet Archive TV News Archive the machine transcription of its complete 2.5…

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Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: What Does A GCP USM Chirp JSON Transcript Look Like?

Yesterday we announced the complete machine transcription of the Internet Archive TV News Archive's complete 2.5 million hours of uncaptioned…

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Transcribing The TV News Archive's 2.5-Million-Hour Quarter-Century Archive Of Global Television News

The Internet Archive's Television News Archive today preserves global television news coverage encompassing selections from 108 channels spanning 50 countries…

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WashPost: Why A Fox News Pundit May Not Have Heard Bad News About Trump

The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores the parallel media universes of cable television news. Read The Full Article.

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Visual Explorer: Stay Tuned For A Massive Announcement This Week

Stay tuned for a truly incredible announcement coming this week.

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Whisper Vs Chirp: The Hidden GPU Cost Of "Free" AI Models & Why Commercial Hosted Models Can Be Far Cheaper

The rapid proliferation of impressively capable "free" open source AI models with one-click installations and simplified workflows means companies increasingly…

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Behind The Scenes: GCP IAP + GNU Screen For One-Off Manual Workloads

There are many use cases like diagnosing an intermittent service fault, testing a new service or performing basic analytics like…

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Frontiers In Research Metrics & Analytics: Cascaded Semantic Fractionation For Identifying A Domain In Social Media

Searching social media to find relevant semantic domains often results in large text files, many of which are irrelevant due…

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Atlantic Council: After Prigozhin, Russia Clamps Down Online

The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) includes an analysis of Russian television news. Read The Full Article.

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WashPost: The Birth Of Fox News's 'Migrant Crime' Obsession

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of immigration. Read The Full Article.

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Generative AI & A Reminder That "Accuracy" Is Not The Same Thing As "Output"

One of the more remarkable reminders of the Wild West state of Generative AI came in a recent meeting I…

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GenAI, Disinformation & The Critical Importance Of Applied Real World LLM Red Teaming Vs Trust & Safety Experts

One of the most underappreciated aspects of AI trust and safety efforts is the critical importance of bringing in external…

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WashPost: Trump's Rhetoric About Immigrant Crime Has Finally Convinced His Party

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of immigrant crime. Read The Full Article.

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IJNet: 4 Biases That Leave Under-Represented Groups Out Of GenAI-Assisted Journalism

Luba Kassova examines how the media is covering the generative AI revolution. Read The Full Article.

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Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1 Million Token Model: Fact Checker, Sentiment Miner, Narrative Analyst, Anomaly Detector & Historian On A Day Of Russian TV News

Let's expand on yesterday's experiments using Google's new Gemini 1.5 Pro's one million token context window and Chirp ASR model…

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Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1 Million Token Model + Chirp: Fully Autonomous Diplomacy Through AI Watching Television

Earlier today we demonstrated the incredible ability of Google's new Gemini 1.5 Pro foundation model and its one million token…

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Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1 Million Token Model: Iterative Q&A With A Full Day Of A Russian Television News Channel

Yesterday we examined how Gemini 1.5 Pro's one million token context window makes it possible to load a complete full…

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Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1 Million Token Model: Summarizing In A Single Prompt A Full Week Of A Russian Television News Channel

Earlier today we leveraged the million-token context window of Google's new Gemini 1.5 Pro foundation model to summarize an entire…

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Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1 Million Token Model: Summarizing One Full Day Of A Russian Television News Channel

The release of Google's new Gemini 1.5 Pro marks the first production foundation model LLM to achieve a context window…

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Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1 Million Token Model: Testing Its "Needle In A Haystack" Performance Tracking Biden Mentions On Russian TV

One of the most exciting elements of Google's new Gemini 1.5 Pro foundation model is its million-token context window coupled…