Clare Spencer
@clarespencer.bsky.social
Reporter for generative-ai-newsroom.com, figuring out when (and when not) to use GenAI in news production. For off topic thoughts go to @aclarespencer on Threads.
Reposted by Clare Spencer
Prorata has signed a licensing partnership with The Danish Press Publications' Collective Management Organisation, whose members can opt into the AI start-up's answer engine giving pre-negotiated credit and compensation www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Prorata has signed a licensing partnership with The Danish Press Publications' Collective Management Organisation, whose members can opt into the AI start-up's answer engine giving pre-negotiated credit and compensation www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
"The errors have ranged from relatively minor pronunciation gaffes to significant changes to story content, like misattributing or inventing quotes and inserting commentary, such as interpreting a source’s quotes as the paper’s position on an issue."
🟡 NEW: The Washington Post’s top standards editor decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists.
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Exclusive: Washington Post’s AI-generated podcasts rife with errors, fictional quotes
Errors in the Post’s new AI-generated podcasts have frustrated the paper’s journalists.
www.semafor.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"The errors have ranged from relatively minor pronunciation gaffes to significant changes to story content, like misattributing or inventing quotes and inserting commentary, such as interpreting a source’s quotes as the paper’s position on an issue."
Reposted by Clare Spencer
🟡 NEW: The Washington Post’s top standards editor decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists.
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Exclusive: Washington Post’s AI-generated podcasts rife with errors, fictional quotes
Errors in the Post’s new AI-generated podcasts have frustrated the paper’s journalists.
www.semafor.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🟡 NEW: The Washington Post’s top standards editor decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists.
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Reposted by Clare Spencer
Disney has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google claiming its AI training models and service infringe on its copyrights on a "massive scale" deadline.com/2025/12/disn...
Disney Fires Off Cease-And-Desist Letter To Google Claiming Its AI Services Infringe On Copyright On A “Massive Scale”
Disney has fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Google, claiming that its AI training models and services infringe on its copyrights on a "massive scale."
deadline.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Disney has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google claiming its AI training models and service infringe on its copyrights on a "massive scale" deadline.com/2025/12/disn...
A first for me - my byline on an academic paper!
Nick Hagar, Ethan Silver, Clare Spencer, Nicholas Diakopoulos: LLM-Assisted News Discovery in High-Volume Information Streams: A Case Study https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25491 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25491 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.25491
December 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A first for me - my byline on an academic paper!
Google have announced they're piloting with DER SPIEGEL, El Pais, Folha de S.Paulo, Infobae, KOMPAS GRAMEDIA, The Guardian, The Times Of India, Washington Examiner and The Washington Post to test AI-powered article overviews and audio briefings in Google News.
blog.google/products/sea...
blog.google/products/sea...
Supporting the web with new features and partnerships
We are announcing new tools and partnerships to help connect you with your favorite sources and explore the web.
blog.google
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Google have announced they're piloting with DER SPIEGEL, El Pais, Folha de S.Paulo, Infobae, KOMPAS GRAMEDIA, The Guardian, The Times Of India, Washington Examiner and The Washington Post to test AI-powered article overviews and audio briefings in Google News.
blog.google/products/sea...
blog.google/products/sea...
Synthetic voice company ElevenLabs has announced they are working with Meta to turn Instagram reels into local languages.
ElevenLabs + Meta. We’re excited to partner to bring the best of voice AI to billions.
We’re starting with the very use case that inspired ElevenLabs in the early days: dubbing. Together we’re… | Mat...
ElevenLabs + Meta. We’re excited to partner to bring the best of voice AI to billions.
We’re starting with the very use case that inspired ElevenLabs in the early days: dubbing. Together we’re locali...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Synthetic voice company ElevenLabs has announced they are working with Meta to turn Instagram reels into local languages.
Reposted by Clare Spencer
AI red flags on this London news website include multiple subheadings stating 'Inverted Pyramid Structure' pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...
London news website publishes misleading 'AI-generated fiction'
A new apparently AI-generated local news website has appeared in North London, raising fears of the public being misled.
pressgazette.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
AI red flags on this London news website include multiple subheadings stating 'Inverted Pyramid Structure' pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...
I have started a public notebook for the C+J conference at the University of Miami today and tomorrow.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I have started a public notebook for the C+J conference at the University of Miami today and tomorrow.
notebooklm.google.com/notebook/51e...
notebooklm.google.com/notebook/51e...
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Google announces first AI deals with publishers: Cash payments come as search giant announces new features to improve referral clicks. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/go...
Google announces first AI deals with publishers
Cash payments come as search giant announces new features to improve referral clicks.
pressgazette.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Google announces first AI deals with publishers: Cash payments come as search giant announces new features to improve referral clicks. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/go...
“The Washington Post has used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and length to create custom versions.” They are using eleven labs
digiday.com/media/the-wa...
digiday.com/media/the-wa...
The Washington Post debuts AI-personalized podcasts to hook younger listeners
The Washington Post used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and duration.
digiday.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“The Washington Post has used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and length to create custom versions.” They are using eleven labs
digiday.com/media/the-wa...
digiday.com/media/the-wa...
This infographic took me minutes to make.
It's a summary of the articles I wrote this year.
It's a summary of the articles I wrote this year.
December 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This infographic took me minutes to make.
It's a summary of the articles I wrote this year.
It's a summary of the articles I wrote this year.
“Publishers have repeatedly complained that they are unable to block Google’s AI bots without also effectively being removed from search results altogether.”
Now the European Commission will investigate whether this placed other AI developers at a disadvantage.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/europea...
Now the European Commission will investigate whether this placed other AI developers at a disadvantage.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/europea...
Europe to investigate Google over use of publisher content for AI
The European Commission opens investigation into Google over use of publisher content for its AI products "without appropriate compensation".
pressgazette.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“Publishers have repeatedly complained that they are unable to block Google’s AI bots without also effectively being removed from search results altogether.”
Now the European Commission will investigate whether this placed other AI developers at a disadvantage.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/europea...
Now the European Commission will investigate whether this placed other AI developers at a disadvantage.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/europea...
This is an excellent resource.
Today the @towcenter.bsky.social is releasing a tracker (built by my talented colleague @aisvarya17.bsky.social) that monitors developments between news publishers and AI companies—including lawsuits, deals, and grants—based on publicly available information. tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
AI Deals and Lawsuits | Platforms and Publishers
A tracker monitoring developments between news publishers and AI companies—including lawsuits, deals, and grants—based on publicly available information.
tow.cjr.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This is an excellent resource.
The most significant moment of 2025 for responsible AI:
Anthropic agreeing to pay authors.
That’s according to Xiaochen Zhang, at Chicago’s AI 2030 end of year event.
It means paying content providers is a “need to do” rather than a “nice to do”.
Anthropic agreeing to pay authors.
That’s according to Xiaochen Zhang, at Chicago’s AI 2030 end of year event.
It means paying content providers is a “need to do” rather than a “nice to do”.
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The most significant moment of 2025 for responsible AI:
Anthropic agreeing to pay authors.
That’s according to Xiaochen Zhang, at Chicago’s AI 2030 end of year event.
It means paying content providers is a “need to do” rather than a “nice to do”.
Anthropic agreeing to pay authors.
That’s according to Xiaochen Zhang, at Chicago’s AI 2030 end of year event.
It means paying content providers is a “need to do” rather than a “nice to do”.
If you haven't read any of my articles this year, you don't need to.
NotebookLM has written a summary which I have read and think is an accurate representation of my year.
NotebookLM has written a summary which I have read and think is an accurate representation of my year.
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If you haven't read any of my articles this year, you don't need to.
NotebookLM has written a summary which I have read and think is an accurate representation of my year.
NotebookLM has written a summary which I have read and think is an accurate representation of my year.
Reposted by Clare Spencer
NEW: Last week an arbitrator ruled that Politico management violated key AI terms in its union contract.
The decision is a landmark win for the Politico union, which is one of the first to legally challenge the rollout of AI technology in its newsroom. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...
The decision is a landmark win for the Politico union, which is one of the first to legally challenge the rollout of AI technology in its newsroom. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...
Politico management violated key AI adoption safeguards, arbitrator finds
The ruling marks one of the first major tests of an AI clause in a newsroom union contract.
www.niemanlab.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW: Last week an arbitrator ruled that Politico management violated key AI terms in its union contract.
The decision is a landmark win for the Politico union, which is one of the first to legally challenge the rollout of AI technology in its newsroom. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...
The decision is a landmark win for the Politico union, which is one of the first to legally challenge the rollout of AI technology in its newsroom. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...
I'm playing around with various GenAI tools to try and help me review my year.
Tips of what has worked for you and what hasn't are very welcome.
So far, uploading Google Sheets has been disappointing - its an unsupported file type on Google Pinpoint and the file was too large on Google NotebookLM.
Tips of what has worked for you and what hasn't are very welcome.
So far, uploading Google Sheets has been disappointing - its an unsupported file type on Google Pinpoint and the file was too large on Google NotebookLM.
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I'm playing around with various GenAI tools to try and help me review my year.
Tips of what has worked for you and what hasn't are very welcome.
So far, uploading Google Sheets has been disappointing - its an unsupported file type on Google Pinpoint and the file was too large on Google NotebookLM.
Tips of what has worked for you and what hasn't are very welcome.
So far, uploading Google Sheets has been disappointing - its an unsupported file type on Google Pinpoint and the file was too large on Google NotebookLM.
On the content-creators-collectively-bargaining-with-AI-companies front... Really Simple Licensing has traction:
"The idea is that this collective effort, backed by major digital media companies, will create enough pressure that AI companies will have to comply."
digiday.com/media/arena-...
"The idea is that this collective effort, backed by major digital media companies, will create enough pressure that AI companies will have to comply."
digiday.com/media/arena-...
Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co, Vox Media join RSL’s AI content licensing efforts
Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co and Vox Media are participating in the RSL Collective's efforts to license content to AI companies.
digiday.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
On the content-creators-collectively-bargaining-with-AI-companies front... Really Simple Licensing has traction:
"The idea is that this collective effort, backed by major digital media companies, will create enough pressure that AI companies will have to comply."
digiday.com/media/arena-...
"The idea is that this collective effort, backed by major digital media companies, will create enough pressure that AI companies will have to comply."
digiday.com/media/arena-...
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FT Ventures has invested in AI and data analytics company RavenPack. Their partnership also includes a content licensing agreement, integrating FT Professional content into RavenPack's analytics, annotations and bigdata.com products aboutus.ft.com/press_releas...
ABOUT THE FT
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy.
aboutus.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
FT Ventures has invested in AI and data analytics company RavenPack. Their partnership also includes a content licensing agreement, integrating FT Professional content into RavenPack's analytics, annotations and bigdata.com products aboutus.ft.com/press_releas...
"In an AI-mediated information ecosystem, few existing publications will be able survive on current business models."
radicallyinformed.substack.com/p/beyond-the...
radicallyinformed.substack.com/p/beyond-the...
Beyond the Artifact: The Brutal Economics of Liquid Content
Value is migrating away from content, and creating surprising new opportunities
radicallyinformed.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"In an AI-mediated information ecosystem, few existing publications will be able survive on current business models."
radicallyinformed.substack.com/p/beyond-the...
radicallyinformed.substack.com/p/beyond-the...
Business Insider announced today that it is one of the first publishers to join Microsoft's new Publisher Content Marketplace pilot program, which it says “will compensate publishers when our trusted journalism is used in its AI-generated results”.
www.businessinsider.com/announcing-o...
www.businessinsider.com/announcing-o...
Announcing our new AI partnership with Microsoft
This pilot creates a framework for a lasting, usage-based partnership between publishers and technology platforms to ensure quality content is credited and rewarded.
www.businessinsider.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Business Insider announced today that it is one of the first publishers to join Microsoft's new Publisher Content Marketplace pilot program, which it says “will compensate publishers when our trusted journalism is used in its AI-generated results”.
www.businessinsider.com/announcing-o...
www.businessinsider.com/announcing-o...
Axios's map of which news organisations is suing and which ones are doing deals with AI companies, as of September, is incredible.
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Axios's map of which news organisations is suing and which ones are doing deals with AI companies, as of September, is incredible.
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Matthew Prince is the CEO that went under the radar (for me) until 2025. This year I have listened to and hours of interviews with him. I thought I had consumed almost all of it but I had missed his interview with Amol Rajan until now. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
BBC Audio | The Today Podcast | ChatGPT and Google: The Tech Billionaire Taking On AI Companies (Matthew Prince)
Cloudflare's CEO on why it's blocking bots that scrape content to train AI models.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Matthew Prince is the CEO that went under the radar (for me) until 2025. This year I have listened to and hours of interviews with him. I thought I had consumed almost all of it but I had missed his interview with Amol Rajan until now. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
Possibly exposing myself as someone who didn't know this corner of the world exists but chanced upon a book I wanted to read only to find out it's $156.
... could someone be kind and explain to me why a book is $156 and if this is normal then what world is it normal in?
... could someone be kind and explain to me why a book is $156 and if this is normal then what world is it normal in?
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Possibly exposing myself as someone who didn't know this corner of the world exists but chanced upon a book I wanted to read only to find out it's $156.
... could someone be kind and explain to me why a book is $156 and if this is normal then what world is it normal in?
... could someone be kind and explain to me why a book is $156 and if this is normal then what world is it normal in?