The Washington Post has launched 'Ask The Post AI', a chatbot that answers questions using the newspaper's articles since 2016. It uses curated data, won't respond without sufficient reporting, and may produce inaccurate information. Users are advised to verify results with published articles. This initiative explores new ways of presenting journalism using AI technology.
Ahrefs has launched new AI-powered SEO and content marketing tools. These include features for keyword suggestions, intent analysis, content creation assistance, content evaluation, and keyword translation. They're developing 'Patches' to fix simple website issues using AI. The tools are available through Ahrefs' platform, with free and paid options.
Perplexity AI's CEO offered tech support to The New York Times during a workers' strike, despite recent legal threats from The Times over unauthorised content use. The Times' Tech Guild went on strike before a US election. The Times, along with other media outlets, have taken legal action against Perplexity AI for alleged copyright infringement.
The largest Dutch publisher, VBK, plans to trial AI for translating commercial fiction books into English. The limited experiment will involve human oversight, author permission, and an editing phase. Literary titles are excluded. VBK was recently acquired by Simon & Schuster.
Troveo, a new platform for licensing content to AI companies, has launched with £4.5 million in seed funding. It aims to help content owners license their material whilst retaining ownership rights. Troveo has secured deals with AI companies to pay over £5 million to content owners by year-end. The platform allows content owners to upload material and receive licensing deals and revenue from AI companies for machine learning model training.
A new book on Amazon provides a nine-step method for using ChatGPT in nonfiction writing. It aims to help coaches, therapists, and entrepreneurs write books faster while maintaining their voice. The book emphasises prompt engineering and is available at a launch price of £0.79.
