DW Innovation

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DW Innovation = DW ReCo + DW Lab.

We explore emerging technologies and their impact on journalism, media, and audiences.

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2026-04-29 18:52:15 UTC

"These workers are required to stare at horrific content for many hours straight with few mental health resources, are largely managed by opaque algorithms, and, crucially, are the workers powering the runaway valuations of some of the richest and most powerful companies in the world."
Jason Koebler for @npub1psa…j5uh:
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
#AI #society

2026-03-02 21:04:39 UTC

"Social media is becoming less social and more like a background habit."
It may not apply as much to our little corner of the internet here, but have you noticed people generally posting less on social media – and quietly observing more?
Devendra Chande shares his thoughts on why that is for @npub1qhg…mkq5:
https://hackernoon.com/why-we-post-less-on-social-media-but-scroll-more
#SocialMedia

2026-02-02 16:18:37 UTC

#CfP: The organizers of the
*International Conference on
Human-AI Interaction
and Experience Design (HAXD26)*
are looking for contributions.
The event will take place in Valencia, Spain from June 9th to 12th.
The deadline for papers is February 20th.
Details: https://intelligent-systems.net/haxd2026/cfp.php
#research #ai #ux #ui #ethics

2026-01-30 08:03:08 UTC

"While encryption remains mathematically sound (...) its real-world protections are increasingly bypassed by the privileged position AI systems occupy inside modern user environments."
https://cyberinsider.com/signal-president-warns-ai-agents-are-making-encryption-irrelevant/
#AI #security #privacy

2026-01-20 11:50:02 UTC

How one Redditor used #AI to help people navigate the messy #data dump of the #EpsteinFiles:
https://www.404media.co/data-hoarder-uses-ai-to-create-searchable-database-of-epstein-files
(Jason Koebler for @npub1psa…j5uh)

2026-01-14 09:09:08 UTC

"According to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language – and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own."
Intriguing article by Benjamin Riley (founder of Cognitive Resonance) for @npub14ps…pcuh.
👇
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems
#neuroscience #linguistics #AI

2025-12-08 10:22:46 UTC

Big news: Deutsche Welle has launched DW Access, an Android app that delivers independent news where it's needed most: in regions under information lockdown.
Key features:
➡️ No app store needed (share via link, messenger, bluetooth)
➡️ Offline mode
➡️ Built-in VPN protection
➡️ Zero personal data collected
More info (and download options) over here: https://corporate.dw.com/en/dw-access-new-app-counters-global-censorship/a-74924705
#PressFreedom #AntiCensorship #DigitalRights #DWAccess

2025-11-17 10:36:21 UTC

The social web is rapidly flooding with fully synthetic AV content, also known as AI slop.
The videos are short and effective – and they can be quite dangerous.
In this report (which is not 8 or 16 seconds, but almost 9 minutes long), Silja Thoms and DW's Fact Check Team explain what the massive trend is about.
Learn how to sharpen your senses, spot the fake content, and stay informed.
👉 https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-what-you-should-know-about-eight-second-ai-videos/video-74268855
#AIslop #disinfo #FactCheck #MIL

2025-11-10 07:41:22 UTC

Pouring cold water on the cloud and AI revolution.
Navi Mumbai is emerging as a hub for India’s booming AI and data center industry – but at a cost. Residents face growing water shortages as massive server farms consume millions of liters of potable water for cooling.
A DW video report: https://www.dw.com/en/can-indias-water-stressed-cities-sustain-ai-data-centers/video-74195979
#AI #India #NaturalResources

2025-11-03 09:44:14 UTC

DW #Journalism #Traineeship (Volo) – Apply by Nov 17!
Are you a creative journalist (or career-changer) fluent in English (C1+) & okay at German (B1+)?
Join DW’s 18-month volo program (01/27–06/28) to train in digital storytelling, data journalism & immersive formats with 11 peers from around the world.
Work in Bonn & Berlin, plus possible stints at international DW bureaus (Brussels, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Washington DC).
More info: https://akademie.dw.com/en/dw-traineeship-2027/a-70487446
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2025-10-28 10:51:46 UTC

Dear Fediverse people,
It's time to say thank you again. 🙏
We started this account 2 years ago & we've recently hit 7k followers. 🎉
What's more important than this standard metric: We've received a lot of insightful comments & questions (& a few less insightful ones 😄).
The point is: This feels like a great platform for an R&D team working at the intersection of #media #technology & #journalism.
We''re here to stay & we're trying to convince others to join as well.
Thx again & cheers!
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2025-09-11 11:51:29 UTC

"The (human) host will get less smiley, less engaging, and so on. The virtual human is very standardized in terms of attitude."
@npub1nn0…qf5k on the advancement of salesperson avatars in China:
https://www.404media.co/chinese-livestreaming-virtual-human-salespeople-are-outselling-their-human-counterparts/
(via @npub1psa…j5uh)
#ai #avatars #marketing

2025-09-04 08:17:45 UTC

"What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?
(...)
The data is astonishing; it feels like sifting through the city's source code."
Impressive mix of #DDJ and #scrollytelling by @npub15ld…thw4
https://pudding.cool/2025/07/street-view/

2025-07-10 09:01:49 UTC

The BBC's R&D department researched the future of agents – pros, cons, and all:
"Ultimately, AI agents depend on our willingness to give up control (…). The key question is not what AI agents can do, but what we are willing to let them decide for us."
Insightful article by Mathieu Triay.
👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-05-ai-agents-challenges-summary
#AI #agents #research

2025-05-09 10:59:26 UTC

"Socrates was accused of corrupting the youth in ancient times, the Rolling Stones were in the 1960s. But the moral panic about smartphone use is backed by evidence."
https://www.dw.com/en/netflixs-adolescence-teen-minds-on-screen/a-72129827

2025-05-07 08:37:45 UTC

#RAG techniques enhance #LLMs by integrating external knowledge sources and thus improve their performance.
In a new blog post for LogRocket, our R&D colleague Rosario De Chiara (of Poste Italiane), explores 6 RAG types:
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Knowledge-Augmented Generation
- Cache-Augmented Generation
- Zero-Indexing Internet Search-Augmented Generation
- Corrective Retrieval-Augmented Generation
👇
https://blog.logrocket.com/rag-techniques/

2025-04-28 08:26:57 UTC

Can your distinguish real images from fake or manipulated ones?
Our colleagues over at DW Fact Check put together a #quiz that will help you improve your #verification #skills.
👇
https://www.dw.com/en/real-or-fake-fact-checking-quiz-fake-news-ai-fake-ai-image-detection-debunking-verification/a-72104848

2025-03-28 11:47:51 UTC

Looking for a vast collection of different sounds? 👂
The BBC Sound Effects Archive offers more than 30,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years.
It's free for personal, educational or research purposes:
https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/
#sfx #audio #archive

2025-03-24 08:30:28 UTC

Yes, we know: #RSS isn't exactly cutting edge. 🙂
However, in a world of social media noise and click bait, promoting tried-and-true web services can be smart and innovative, too. 😎
So here's a collection of #DW feeds you can directly tap into via your favorite traditional #news aggregator:
https://corporate.dw.com/en/rss-feeds/a-68693346

2025-03-19 09:24:22 UTC

Core insights:
🤖 Bots are bad at saying "I don't know". They rather offer incorrect info. Or speculate.
🤖 Bots fabricate links and cite syndicated and copied versions of articles.
🤖 Multiple bots seem to bypass bot exclusion protocols.
🤖 Content licensing deals provide no guarantee of accurate citation.
🤖 Premium bots are worse than their free counterparts.
Bottom line: You can't really trust AI search engines (yet).
(via Columbia Journalism review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php
#ai #llm

2024-12-04 09:13:20 UTC

🗺️ 📍 Geolocating an image can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack.
We built SPOT to help you find it:
Just describe distinctive geospatial features and distances in natural language – and our tool will pinpoint potential matches on OpenStreetMap.
👇
https://findthatspot.io
#geolocation #OSM #OSINT
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2024-11-29 14:01:20 UTC

Castopod is an open-source podcast hosting platform that integrates with the Fediverse and has a strong focus on data sovereignty (your content, your audience, your analytics):
https://docs.castopod.org/main/en
#fediverse #podcasting

2024-11-27 10:35:26 UTC

The malicious use of audio synthesis and deepfakes is becoming a truly global issue. For instance, the technology is also weaponized in the war in Sudan, as Mohamed Suliman explains in this article for African Arguments. As tools become more sophisticated, the disinfo problem is likely to further intensify.
https://africanarguments.org/2024/10/the-deepfake-is-a-powerful-weapon-in-the-war-in-sudan/
#AI #politics #war

2024-11-19 20:14:10 UTC

According to this @npub14rz…23ph article, the most popular piece of mobile software among US Gen Z audiences this year is neither a messenger nor a next-gen social media client. It's Temu.
So far, there have been almost 42 million downloads, "indicating that the vast selection of affordable items is highly appealing to this particular group despite their dedication to sustainability and the ongoing debates around fast fashion."
Food for thought.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/10/these-are-the-top-apps-gen-z-young-adults-downloaded-this-year/
#apps #audiences

2024-11-14 13:11:12 UTC

New from DW Data: Updated #charts on #ClimateChange. 📈 📊 🌍
Questions answered in this longread:
- Which regions emit the most CO2?
- What are the major sources of emissions?
- How have emissions developed?
- How much has the world warmed?
- How much have sea levels risen?
👇
https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-emissions-data-charts-cop26/a-59652069
#DDJ #DataViz

2024-11-11 10:39:24 UTC

Generative AI not only consumes a lot of energy, it's also likely to produce a lot of electronic trash.
According to researchers, the total amount of global e-waste could grow by the alarming factor of 1.000 in only 5 years.
There are solutions to reducing e-waste – e.g. by prolonging, reusing, and recycling hardware. Their implementation needs global strategies, of course.
An article by DW's Fred Schwaller explains the issue in more detail:
https://www.dw.com/en/e-waste-from-ai-computers-could-escalate-beyond-control/a-70619724
#AI #eWaste #environment

2024-11-04 10:49:44 UTC

#Russia is putting a significant amount of money and effort into boosting content that pushes its agenda. Main strategies include: enlisting influencers, setting up fake websites and fake accounts, and using an army of bots. Poorly designed algorithms and poorly monitored platforms make sure the Kremlin #disinfo and #propaganda is rather effective.
DW's Roger Ditter explains how things work in detail.
https://www.dw.com/en/why-you-dont-notice-russias-media-manipulation/video-70271490

2024-10-31 08:59:25 UTC

#OKLCH is a (relatively) new color space model designed for digital media. It represents colors in a way that's perceptually uniform, i.e.: changes in color values more closely match how humans actually see color differences. The model allows for precise, predictable color adjustments, especially in CSS for web design.
Here's a free tool to play around with it (coded by Evil Martians) – and a lot of background info:
https://oklch.com/#70,0.1,171.07,100
#colors #css #webdesign

2024-10-30 09:49:48 UTC

Published in 2023, but still relevant:
A paper that looks at how 52 different media organizations from 12 countries address expectations and concerns when it comes to using AI in the news:
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/c4af9
#ai #journalism #paper

2024-10-29 12:17:58 UTC

Via @npub1psa…j5uh:
Epic Games is transforming the popular and partly free Sketchfab platform into Fab - a consolidated marketplace. This might have negative effects on a large number of items uploaded by scientists, artists, and archivist.
The main lesson here: It's probably best to pick a truly open, sustainable, non-commercial platform right from the start?
https://www.404media.co/scientists-and-archivists-worry-epic-games-control-of-the-3d-model-market-will-destroy-cultural-heritage/
#CulturalHeritage #DigitalPreservation

2024-10-19 09:42:21 UTC

"Political parties use artificial intelligence to create alternative realities with emotional content designed to tug on our heartstrings or to scare us with frightening scenarios. How does that influence us?"
DW's Rayna Breuer has taken a look at the use of AI in election campaigns:
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-ai-influences-election-campaigns/a-70469880
#ai #politics

2024-10-15 10:20:20 UTC

WikiProject AI Cleanup is all about fighting low-quality GenAI content and misinfo on Wikipedia.
@npub1psa…j5uh has published a portrait of the group of editors trying to protect the free content online encyclopedia:
https://www.404media.co/the-editors-protecting-wikipedia-from-ai-hoaxes
#Wikipedia #AI #Verification

2024-10-04 10:17:07 UTC

It's been exactly a year since we published our first post on Mastodon. And it's time to say thank you again:
For more than 5700 followers, for all the favs and boosts, for lots of interesting comments and links, for a social media atmosphere that's almost always civilized and constructive. So three cheers to you, people of the Fediverse! This account is here to stay.
We're DW ReCo, and we're all about #technology and #innovation in the world of #journalism.
https://innovation.dw.com
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2024-09-26 11:46:01 UTC

"A platform that used to downgrade hoaxes, conspiracy theories and false claims has become one where even the boss now spreads the stuff. That change didn’t happen immediately, but the shift of X from a useful information source to a locus of misinformation has alarmed fact-checkers worldwide."
(via @npub1h2g…pc87)
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/how-elon-musk-twitter-takeover-accelerated-misinformation/
#twitter #x #disinformation #verification

2024-09-17 12:27:45 UTC

Here's a new #tool to help fight #disinfo and facilitate #verification:
SPOT is an #AI-driven natural language interface for geospatial searches in #OpenStreetMap. 🗺 🔍
Fetch an image you need to check.
Identify an info pattern.
Provide instructions: "Show me a parking space within 200 meters of a communications tower and a power pole in Legnago, Italy".
Receive a really good result on an interactive map. 🙌
Details & a call for beta testers in this post: https://innovation.dw.com/articles/geolocation-verification-with-ai-our-solution