Moving on

I have news: I am leaving CUNY’s Newmark Journalism School at the end of the term…

ChatGPT Goes to Court

The fault lies not in our machines, but in ourselves

Journalism is Lossy Compression

In The New Yorker, Ted Chiang calls ChatGPT “a blurry JPEG of the…

Trafficking in Traffic

The Death of BuzzFeed News and the End of Mass Media

Artificial General Bullshit

AI, AGI, and its other hallucinations: A report from a sane discussion of…

On Copyright and AI

My response to the Copyright Office in the context of journalism

Darrell V. Jarvis, 1926–2023

My father died at 97. I write this for myself, to memorialize him, to…

A Few Unpopular Opinions about AI

When to tell the machine to STFU

A Generation Later

And what have we learned? This year, I am angry.

California’s Protectionist Legislation

Opposing the CJPA

I just submitted a letter opposing the so-called California Journalism Preservation Act that is now going through the Senate. Here’s what I said (I’ll skip the opening paragraph with my journalistic bona…