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Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...
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False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”

This story was copublished with Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for its newsletters here. Last summer, administrators at Bradford High School in Kenosha, ...
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L.A.’s Scoring System for Subsidized Housing Gives Black and Latino People Experiencing Homelessness Lower Priority Scores

For most of the past four years, Chantel Jones lived in a homeless shelter on Los Angeles’s skid row, hating the danger, noise, and confinement: “You feel like you’re in jail, but you’re not in jail,” ...
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Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook

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Split Screen: How Different Are Americans’ Facebook Feeds?

Facebook’s recommendation algorithm shows different news, groups, and hashtags to different users. But who sees what? Split Screen attempts to answer that question with real world data collected ...
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See the Neighborhoods Internet Providers Excluded from Fast Internet

Sources The Markup analysis of a 10 percent random sample of addresses served by AT&T, CenturyLink, and Verizon in each city; U.S. Census Bureau, Mapping Inequality Speed of base internet offer at $55 ...
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How Automated Content Moderation Works (Even When It Doesn’t)

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During my kid’s surgery, I was denied a copy of my consent form — then sent to a ghost office

Hello World is a weekly newsletter—delivered every Saturday morning—that goes deep into our original reporting and the questions we put to big thinkers in the field. Browse the archive here. I’m Alex, ...
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Who's Afraid of Disparate Impact?

Hello World is a weekly newsletter—delivered every Saturday morning—that goes deep into our original reporting and the questions we put to big thinkers in the field. Browse the archive here. Hi, I’m ...
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Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook

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The Writers’ Strike Over AI Is Bigger Than Hollywood

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AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating

Taylor Hahn, who teaches at Johns Hopkins University, got an alert while grading a student paper this past spring for a communications course. He had uploaded the assignment to Turnitin, software used ...