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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…

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Recession Mentions Continue To Fade Away On Television News

Mentions of an impending recession continue to fade away on television news channels.

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"Maga" Mentions Fade On CNN & Fox News But Continue On MSNBC

Mentions of "Maga" have faded sharply on CNN and Fox News, but continue to be steadily mentioned on MSNBC.

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Mentions Of "Wokeness" Soared On Fox News In 2021 With CNN & MSNBC Surging This Year

Mentions of "woke" and "wokeness" surged on Fox News from January 2021, but over the last three months have surged…

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Pandemic Coverage Continues To Fade Across Both Online And Television News

Television news mentions of the pandemic continue their downward descent: Online news coverage of the pandemic shows a new descent…

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Being "Canceled" Took Off In 2020 On Television News But Has Been Fading Since 2021

The timeline below tracks total mentions of "canceled" on television news, showing nearly equal mentions through mid-2020, when the term…

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Fox News Dominates Mentions Of "Radical" Over The Past Decade

As the timeline and graph below show, Fox News has dominated mentions of the word "radical" over the past decade….

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WashPost: Ray Epps Seeks The Seemingly Impossible: An Apology From Tucker Carlson

The Washington Post's Philip Bump tracks Fox News coverage of Ray Epps. Read The Full Article.

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WashPost: The TikTok fight Is A Generational Fight

The Washington Post's Philip Bump references television news coverage of TikTok. View The Full Article.

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Biden Versus Musk On Business Television News

The timeline below compares the percentage of airtime across business television news channels since the start of last year that…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: The Bucha Massacre Likened To WWII Nazis

On Sunday evening, Russia-24 presented a 2-part piece (~50 minutes) framing Ukraine's fight against Russia’s invasions as a product of…

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Visual Explorer: Creating Visual Networks Of Facial Co-Occurrences On An Episode Of Russian TV News' 60 Minutes – Revisited

Last week we demonstrated using a simplistic facial extraction and visual clustering pipeline to extract the faces from a single…

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Adding Confidence Scores To Tracking A Year Of Tucker Carlson On Russia 1's "60 Minutes"

Last month, in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we demonstrated scanning a year of Russia1's "60 Minutes"…