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…
Join Us At Collision 2023 This Week
If you're at Collision 2023 in Toronto this week, get in touch for an early glimpse at some of our…
Collision 2023: The Continuing Threat Of Misinformation
Kalev will be speaking this week at Collision 2023 in Toronto on a panel titled "The Continuing Threat Of Misinformation"…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: A Selected Look At Coverage Of The Prigozhin Rebellion
Below are a few selections of how media covered Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebellion. Putin’s recorded announcement June 24 10am…
Visual Explorer: How The World Is Covering The Events In Russia
With the Visual Explorer's new thumbnail-based instantly skimmable homepage, you can now instantly survey how the world's media are covering…
Spinmeisters Of Iran: PressTV Provides Regular Updates On Russian Coup-In-Progress While IRINN Gives Less Airtime
Iran's English-language PressTV is providing steady coverage of the Russian coup-in-progress and appears to actually be giving it more airtime…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: Russian TV News Not Heavily Covering Wagner's Attempted Coup
Remarkably, unlike American media that typically turn to 24/7 coverage of major breaking events, Russian television news is continuing with…
Cataloging 14 Years Of Obama, Trump, Biden And DeSantis Appearances On CNN, MSNBC And Fox News
Earlier this week we unveiled a massive new catalog of every appearance of a human face across CNN, MSNBC and…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: Sample Russian TV News Coverage Of Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's Statement
With Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's statement, below are two clips showing samples of how Russian television news is covering the…