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American TV News Coverage Of Ukraine Is Down 25-Fold While RT & DW Lead Coverage

The timeline below shows total mentions of Ukraine since the start of last year, showing how quickly American television news…

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Ukraine Is Fading On Russia Today As The Invasion Grinds On

The timeline below shows total mentions of Ukraine on Russia Today since 2010 (there is an outage in the Archive's…

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Visual Explorer: Using Chrome's Google Lens Integration To OCR & Translate Onscreen Text

While the Visual Explorer performs speech recognition and machine translation into English on the Belarusian, Persian, Russian and Ukrainian television…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Verifying Quotes By Public Figures

Could ChatGPT be used to fact check "who said what" statements involving major public figures? In other words, when encountering…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Public Figure Safety Features & How Adding "Donald Trump" Makes ChatGPT Dismiss True As "False & Fabricated"

To what degree do OpenAI's conversational health efforts for ChatGPT differentiate public figures from others in providing additional safeguards surrounding…

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ChatGPT Experiments: The Limitations Of Structured Summarization Versus Codification & Realtime Versus "Known" Domains

As we've been exploring ways Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can help us better make sense of the vast…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Instant Event Databases

Could Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT be used to instantly transform textual news articles into codified event databases, leveraging…

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WashPost: Whose 'Fault' Is The Increase In Fentanyl Overdoses?

The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an examination of coverage of fentanyl on television news, including an interesting contextual look…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Looking Across Turkish Earthquake Coverage To Codify Aid Promises

One of the greatest promises of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are their ability to look across vast volumes…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Tell Me All Of The True & False Statements In This Article

To what degree can ChatGPT be automatically identify all of the true and false statements in news coverage, extracting the…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Automated Fact Checking Of Articles & Trump's False 2020 Claims

To what degree can ChatGPT be used to "fact check" news coverage, extracting the claims within and comparing it with…

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ChatGPT Experiments: What Is Fact Versus Opinion?

To what degree can  ChatGPT differentiate between statements of fact and opinion in news coverage, decomposing an article into constituent…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Fact Versus Opinion & How Results Can Differ From Run To Run

One of the greatest strengths of ChatGPT is its ability to generate fluent prose that differs each time it is…

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Media Coverage of Biden’s Documents

In the past six months, documents with classified markings have been discovered at residences and offices associated with both President…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) + Planetary-Scale Realtime Data: Current Limitations

While impressive, there are still numerous challenges with current state of the art Large Language Models (LLMs) when applied to…

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ChatGPT, Bard & A Large Language Model (LLM) Future: GDELT + LLMs = Realtime Planetary-Scale Risk Cataloging & Q&A

GDELT today monitors global news coverage in more than 150 languages, with GDELT 3.0 to expand that number to nearly…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Summarizing An ABC Evening News Broadcast – Part 2

One of the primary challenges in our previous attempt to summarize an ABC Evening News broadcast and distill it into…

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ChatGPT Experiments: EV Supply Chain Shortages Summarization & Q&A

How might OpenAI's ChatGPT help analyze supply chain shortage news coverage, using GDELT's Web NGrams 3.0 dataset to identify supply…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Disease Outbreak Summarization & Codification

How might OpenAI's ChatGPT help analyze disease outbreak news coverage, using GDELT's Web NGrams 3.0 dataset to identify disease-related coverage…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Summary And Q&A About The Protests In Peru

Following our analysis this morning of protests in France using ChatGPT, what might it tell us about protests in Peru?…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Summary And Q&A About The Protests In France

How might OpenAI's ChatGPT help analyze protest news coverage monitored by GDELT? To explore this further, we used GDELT's Web…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Summarization And Q&A About Iranian Television News Take Two (When Things Go Wrong & The Importance Of Prompt Engineering)

To explore the impact of prompt engineering, increased attention and brittleness on OpenAI's ChatGPT, we applied it to the same…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Summarization And Q&A About Iranian Television News

In similar fashion to our exploration of ChatGPT's ability to summarize and answer questions about Russian television news, how might…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Summarization And Q&A About Russian Television News

As part of our continued experiments with OpenAI's ChatGPT, what would it look like to ask it to summarize a…