Notices by Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺 (vittoria@mastodon.social), page 2

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May 22 (Reuters) - Sam Altman-led #OpenAI has signed a deal to bring News Corp's news content to the #ArtificialIntelligence platform, the companies said on Wednesday.
#journalism

@aral @rimu yeah man, all I am doing is pointing out that it's irresponsible to disseminate opinions as facts without verification, but you do you

@aral @rimu guess what, we also routinely quote Hamas, and NGOs, and UNRWA, and pretty much all the other actors involved in the conflict, plus reporters on the ground and eyewitnesses, and that's how sources work, you get at least two, preferably three..

@aral @rimu I guess yours is disseminating information without verifying the veracity of the claims, then..

@aral @rimu you're just reposting the same one source. Was there anyone else in that meeting who can corroborate what this person is saying?

@aral @rimu yeah, those are not sources

Movie star Scarlett Johansson said Monday she was "shocked" by an OpenAI synthetic voice that sounds like her, which was released after she declined to work with the ChatGPT-maker on such a project. The artificial intelligence powerhouse headed by Sam Altman said it was working on temporarily muting the Johannson-sounding voice it calls "Sky." Monte Francis reports.
#OpenAI #AI #Hollywood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4PfCX1e13I

As Macron heads to New Caledonia in an attempt to quell a political crisis that led to deadly riots, David Camroux, Senior Research Fellow at Sciences Po CERI, explains that the French desire to hang on to New Caledonia is stronger than in the past as the waters around the territory make France the second largest maritime power in the world. He spoke to FRANCE 24's Tom Burges Watson
#NewCaledonia #France #riots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrI9KOYQVCA

via AFP
#Israel walked back its decision to shut down an #AssociatedPress live video feed of war-torn #Gaza on Tuesday, following a protest from the US news agency and concern from the White House.
Israel's Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi said he had revoked an earlier order that accused the AP of breaching a new ban on providing rolling footage of Gaza to Qatar-based satellite channel Al Jazeera.

Andrew Geddes of the Migration Policy Centre tells FRANCE24's Mark Owen that the potential for migration to be a destabilizing factor in both domestic and international politics is clear, and fear and concern about migration is one way influence by hostile powers could be exerted as well as actual movement.
#Russia #Ukraine #migrant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLp4iSnJIag

#France 's main #FarRight party said it will no longer sit in the #EU parliament with the #AfD faction, indicating it had lost patience with the controversies surrounding its German allies. The head of the AfD's list in the polls, Maximilian Krah, had said in a weekend interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica that someone who had been a member of the SS was "not automatically a criminal". Pierre Benazet reports from Brussels.
#Germany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNnQcLVch6s
#FarRight #Germany #France

This theory by linguist Bernard Cerquiglini was put to the test today in the France24 newsroom when the title of a segment dedicated to the #Paris2024 Olympics was determined to be "Destination Paris" in both #English and #French...
#linguistics #France

A Bangladeshi woman was shot dead Wednesday in the latest violent protests by garment workers after they rejected a government wage increase offer, with the victim's husband blaming the police.

#Bangladesh #FastFashion #Unionize #TextileIndustry #Environment #WorkersRights #MinimumWage
https://f24.my/9v6P.g

#Kitty #ITsupport #catsofmastodon #cats