Complex & Ambiguous Phrasing, Re-Reading & LLMs' Inability To Conceptually Reason
Conceptually, LLM reasoning is a linear process, "confined to token-level, left-to-right decision-making processes during inference." This means that when confronted…
Fox News Covered Mulvaney Story 3x More Than CNN & MSNBC Combined
The timeline below shows mentions of Dylan Mulvaney across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News since April of this year, showing…
FiveThirtyEight: Which 2024 Candidates Had The Best – And Worst – Campaign Launches?
An analysis in FiveThirtyEight today includes a mention of television news coverage of Tim Scott's campaign. Read The Full Article.
When Light Is Dark, Heavy Is Light & Expensive Is Cheap: The Challenges Of Generative Search & LLM Reasoning
As we continue to assess the state of generative search, here are a few interesting examples from a major commercial…
The Era Of "Bombshells" On Television News: 2015-2020
The timeline below shows total mentions of the word "bombshell(s)" across television news over the past decade, showing a marked…
Fox News Covers Pandemic "Lab Leak" Theory 2.7x As Much As CNN & MSNBC Combined
The timeline below shows discussion of the Covid-19 "lab leak" theory across television news since the start of the pandemic:…
EUobserver: How Kremlin Promotes Orban As The Voice Of 'Real' Europe
Viktor Orban and other Hungarian politicians frequently appear on Russian TV screens and are featured prominently in state media, where…
Visual Explorer: Historical Backfiles For Al Maghribia, TVR Info And TV3 Now Available
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, the complete TV News Archive historical backfiles for Morocco's Al Maghribia,…
Russian Television Covering US Cluster Bomb Package To Ukraine
Russian television, such as this sample broadcast from Russia Today, emphasizes the US' apparent about-face on the use of cluster…
How Television News Has Covered Cluster Bombs As War Crimes
The timeline below shows mentions of cluster munitions as illegal or war crimes across a handful of television news channels:…
OpenAI & ChatGPT Are Fading In The News: Media Shifts From Posterchild "OpenAI" To "Generative AI"
A deep dive into media coverage of the emerging world of generative AI suggests a pivot from OpenAI as the…
Twitter's Television News 'Trump Bump' Has Faded: Fewer Mentions Than A Decade Ago
Donald Trump led to a sustained rise in mentions of Twitter across television news which decreased steadily during his presidency….
Append-Based Keyword Search Versus Rebuild-From-Scratch Embedding Databases: Technical & Methodological Challenges
One of the most underappreciated challenges of large-scale embedding database implementation in the enterprise is their fundamental difference from keyword-based…
Using Embedding Ranking To Sort Generative Summaries By "Quality"
Earlier today we demonstrated how scoring LLM-based generative summaries by embedding-based similarity ranking to the original source material can filter…
Do LLM's Truly "Create" Or Merely "Arrange": Just How Much Of An LLM's Writing Is Original?
Continuing our exploration of generative plagiarism, just how much of the text created by a generative LLM is truly novel?…
Generative Plagiarism Creates New Legal Challenges For Companies
Yesterday we demonstrated how "generative search" can actually become "plagiarism search" in which, rather than summarize search results, LLM copy-pastes…
Using Embedding Ranking To Combat LLM Hallucination In Generative Summarization: The ABC News Chinese Spy Balloon Story
One of the great challenges in using Large Language Models (LLMs) for summarization is their tendency towards confident hallucination, in…
Is "Generative Search" Actually "Plagiarism Search" Or Have Humans Already Written Every Possible Sentence?
Generative search is increasingly being portrayed as the future of how we search the web, in which embeddings and other…
Spinmeisters Of Iran: How Iranian Television Is Covering The French Protests
Iran has been using the protests in France as an opportunity to spin itself once again as a protector of…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: A Look Back At Prigozhin's Comments On 2016 Election Information Operations
In light of Prigozhin's past weekend's attempted coup, it is interesting to look back on his comments last year acknowledging…
Visual Explorer: Historical Backfiles For Al Maghribia, TVR Info And TV3 Coming Soon
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, the complete TV News Archive historical backfiles for Morocco's Al Maghribia,…
Video: Collision 2023: The Continuing Threat Of Misinformation
The video of yesterday's panel at Collision 2023 in Toronto is now available! The panel titled "The Continuing Threat Of…
Today: Collision 2023: The Continuing Threat Of Misinformation
Kalev is speaking today at Collision 2023 in Toronto on a panel titled "The Continuing Threat Of Misinformation" alongside Kiran…
Is It Really 'All Trump All the Time' On Cable News?
For much of the past decade Donald Trump has loomed large over the media landscape, his name and face an…