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Weekly News Digest
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December 10, 2024 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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TechCrunch: 'Study of ChatGPT Citations Makes Dismal Reading for Publishers'
Natasha Lomas writes the following for TechCrunch:As more publishers cut content licensing deals with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, a study put out this week by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism—looking at how the AI chatbot produces citations (i.e. sources) for publishers’ content—makes for interesting, or, well, concerning, reading. In a nutshell, the findings suggest publishers remain at the mercy of the generative AI tool’s tendency to invent or otherwise misrepresent information, regardless of whether or not they’re allowing OpenAI to crawl their content. For more information, read the article.
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