{"id":252319,"date":"2022-08-08T19:52:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=252319"},"modified":"2022-08-08T19:52:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:52:25","slug":"how-facebooks-ai-bot-explains-the-decline-of-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/08\/08\/how-facebooks-ai-bot-explains-the-decline-of-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How Facebook\u2019s AI bot explains the decline of news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facebook\u00a0unveiled a new experiment: a conversational AI named\u00a0BlenderBot 3, which the company says\u00a0can \u201ccan search the internet to talk about nearly any topic.\u201d So Josh Benton at the Nieman Journalism Lab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2022\/08\/blame-craig-how-facebooks-ai-bot-explains-the-decline-of-the-news-industry\/\">decided to ask BlenderBot<\/a> who is to blame for the death of the news business:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blame-Craig-How-Facebooks-AI-bot-explains-the-decline-of-the-news-industry-Nieman-Journalism-Lab.png?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252320\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u00a0unveiled a new experiment: a conversational AI named\u00a0BlenderBot 3, which the company says\u00a0can \u201ccan search the internet to talk about nearly any topic.\u201d So Josh Benton at the Nieman Journalism Lab decided to ask BlenderBot who is to blame for the death of the news business:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}