Disinforming Ourselves to Death
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Things AI Cannot Replace: Creative Friction, Empathy Work, and Emotional Public Spheres
[Note: Roughly adapted from my Korean language article at slownews.kr. Intended to serve as a discussion starter for any ‘Media and Society’ type classes that aim to go deeper than hey-algorithms-are-bad.] In the current discourse around AI, two extremes stand out. One is excessive optimism, the belief that AI can replace anything. The other is…
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Guideline for Ethical Use of AI in Journalism
Based on some recent conversations with our Slownews.kr team, I had the opportunity to pen a rough guideline on how to use AI for journalism in an ethical way. Instead of going with a technical manual like I often do, I opted to make it more like a manifesto: what journalism’s social mission is (i.e.…
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How (Not) to Cover Political Violence Done to the Prophet of Political Violence
Some notes I left on Bluesky, slightly before and on the immediate aftermath of the shooting at the GOP rally, with minor elaborations. — In every sane timeline, this should lead to a bipartisan (read: the GOP finally rediscovering decency), society-wide reform on gun safety and strengthened ethics oversight on incitements of political violence. In…