https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2026-05-26T11:27:42+00:00 https://www.ucd.ie/connected_politics/blog/auditingaichatbotsduringthegalwaywestanddublincentralbyelections/ jm We asked each chatbot a set of 194 questions covering a range of relevant topics on two separate occasions, 14 and 7 days before voters go to the polls on 22 May. Our aim was to assess: - Do they provide citizens with accurate election information? - Which sources do they rely on, and how does this vary across chatbots? - Who do they platform when they answer questions, and who is left out? .... The largest share of citations is directed towards mainstream news sites, and this is where the first evidence of source curation by chatbots can be found. While the Irish Times is a common source across all providers, ChatGPT and Gemini never refer to RTÉ. Meanwhile, despite not ranking among the top three news sources for the other chatbots, Gript is the number one news source cited by Gemini. We find that xAI’s Grok is the most likely to use social media in responses, while Gemini most frequently refers to YouTube and content from Reddit. ChatGPT appeared less likely to rely on social media compared to the other chatbots. IMO, this points to an undesirable side effect of paywalls in the news media. While it's vitally important for media companies to protect their means of income, an unwelcome side effect is that the introduction of paywalls has resulted in AI chatbots sidelining mainstream news media sources which they cannot access reliably, in favour of what is effectively disinformation from less trustworthy sites like Gript.]]> grok ai llms xai web news media ireland irish-times rte chatgpt gemini reddit youtube elections politics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:743f7d4c93e1/ 2017-11-06T09:45:11+00:00 https://twitter.com/Tupp_Ed/status/927139978571845632 jm complaining complaints rte bai ireland current-affairs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1f6974f033c5/ 2014-04-07T14:35:43+00:00 http://irishnewsdiffs.com/ jmTracking Irish News Stories Over Time; Irish NewsDiffs archives changes in articles after publication. Currently, we track rte.ie and irishtimes.com. ]]> rte irish-times diffing diffs changes tracking newspapers news ireland history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:835e4b976f04/ 2014-02-05T10:07:02+00:00 http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2014/02/05/purported-rte-internal-memo-to-unhappy-staff-re-pantigate/ jm fail rte leaks memos pantigate panti-bliss homophobia libel defamation ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ad01c39661f0/ 2014-01-27T21:40:35+00:00 http://ourmaninstockholm.com/2014/01/26/caught-with-our-pantis-down/ jmThe views expressed by [the Iona Institute] – especially in relation to gay people – are very much at odds with the liberal secular society that Ireland has become. Indeed, Rory O’Neill suggested that the only time he experiences homophobia is online or at the hands of Iona and Waters. When they’re done with that, they can ask why Iona is given so much room in the media. In any other country in the world, an organisation as litigious as Iona would never be asked to participate in anything. ]]> homophobia ireland john-waters iona-institute politics catholicism religion libel defamation rte the-irish-times https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:76d0e5616a68/ 2013-05-17T10:22:58+00:00 http://totallydublin.ie/more/opinion/deep-in-the-game-not-the-rte-guide/ jmI’ve always been a huge fan of TV Go Home and Charlie Brooker in general and it seemed like Irish TV and culture was a good target for the kind of barbed surrealism that he does. (I’m not claiming I’m in his league or anything but he’s the main influence). I was really surprised that there hadn’t been a parody RTÉ Guide already. TV listings are 140-ish characters already and the RTÉ Guide has a kind of weird place in Irish culture where everybody knows it but nobody our age really has any idea of what’s in it anymore. We associate it with a small-c conservatism, or I did at least and I play that up occasionally with the account. ]]> nottherteguide rte rte-guide ireland funny satire interviews https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9958947698da/ 2013-04-15T13:51:01+00:00 http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/just-how-bad-are-rtes-finances/ jmIt seems that RTE has become a disaster zone, with libels and incompetence overseen by incapable management, and this is reflected in that organisation’s financial results. RTE still employs nearly 2,000 people and supports jobs and industry across independent producers and suppliers; it is a major business. But the time has come to call a halt to delusional management that is sinking the organization deeper into a quagmire which will ultimately need to be bailed out by the State. And Noel Curran is fobbing us off with flying a kite about a reduction in 65-year old Pat Kenny’s salary from €630,000 to €570,000?! ]]> rte namawinelake public funding finances money mismanagement ireland incompetence tv news https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a43bd03b7548/ 2011-12-06T10:04:08+00:00 http://www.rte.ie/news/money/debt/how-would-my-finances-change-if-euro-collapsed.html jm ireland euro disaster rte finance money mortgages https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6be0c60a3882/ 2011-09-26T10:40:53+00:00 http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-vodie/ jm xbmc plugins rte tv3 tg4 ireland magnet television tv flash video https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b3f7dc0364c4/