LOL! Thanks. Fortunately, most village officials (although not school district officials) have accepted that the Chronicle is a real and serious media outlet in Croton and provide comment and interviews for our reporting. As for Michael Balter Day, bring it on! I’d love to have my picture taken in front of the podium with the Board of TRustees and published in the Gazette :-)
I agree Michael. Assorted AI programs are useful for pointing--often to sources that one is unaware of---and in that sense, they can be quite useful...But nuance and subtlety are strictly human traits and that is something harder for AI to capture.
So, if you read the Chronicle, you get a real interview with the real Nora Nicholson. If you are a member of The Croton Point, you are forbidden from posting what Nora actually said. The issue here is censorship and the AI question is a way of illustrating that.
Posting an AI summary may be copyright infringement, as doing so requires making a [unauthorized] copy of the original to feed as input to the Large Language Model. So the morality police at Croton Point are encouraging immoral content theft that financially benefits only big tech at the expense of small publishers like The Chronicle while censoring those same small publishers and blocking their chance at making any profit or at least recuperating expenses by creating quality content. In other words, Croton Point admins are ultra capitalist rentier hypocrites in the guise of moralizing progressive Democrats.
Didn't know the Croton Point Facebook page banned posts from the Croton Chronicle. I don't do Facebook, so I guess I wouldn't know, but I assumed the Croton Point Facebook page was open; to its members (at least). And to think the Croton Point moderator once worked for the Village Voice!
Even the MAGA driven Everything 'Cudequest' blog spot, occasionally references the Croton Chronicle.
Which AI engine did you use? Your use of it was very smart.
Michael you do a great job of keeping us informed.
Thank you!
Although our elected official may not appreciate your reporting.
It would be in good faith to commend your hard work and honest journalism with a Michael Balter Day!
LOL! Thanks. Fortunately, most village officials (although not school district officials) have accepted that the Chronicle is a real and serious media outlet in Croton and provide comment and interviews for our reporting. As for Michael Balter Day, bring it on! I’d love to have my picture taken in front of the podium with the Board of TRustees and published in the Gazette :-)
I agree Michael. Assorted AI programs are useful for pointing--often to sources that one is unaware of---and in that sense, they can be quite useful...But nuance and subtlety are strictly human traits and that is something harder for AI to capture.
So, if you read the Chronicle, you get a real interview with the real Nora Nicholson. If you are a member of The Croton Point, you are forbidden from posting what Nora actually said. The issue here is censorship and the AI question is a way of illustrating that.
Yes that too.
Posting an AI summary may be copyright infringement, as doing so requires making a [unauthorized] copy of the original to feed as input to the Large Language Model. So the morality police at Croton Point are encouraging immoral content theft that financially benefits only big tech at the expense of small publishers like The Chronicle while censoring those same small publishers and blocking their chance at making any profit or at least recuperating expenses by creating quality content. In other words, Croton Point admins are ultra capitalist rentier hypocrites in the guise of moralizing progressive Democrats.
Didn't know the Croton Point Facebook page banned posts from the Croton Chronicle. I don't do Facebook, so I guess I wouldn't know, but I assumed the Croton Point Facebook page was open; to its members (at least). And to think the Croton Point moderator once worked for the Village Voice!
Even the MAGA driven Everything 'Cudequest' blog spot, occasionally references the Croton Chronicle.
Which AI engine did you use? Your use of it was very smart.