Aisvarya Chandrasekar
@aisvarya17.bsky.social
I work at @towcenter.bsky.social as a computational research fellow, studying the impact of AI tools in journalism. I am a grantee in Brown Institute’s 2024-25 Magic Grant cohort, building PollFinder.ai.
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Why AI models are bad at verifying photos
Many of the latest large language models, including OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5, tout an impressive capability: reasoning about images. We have seen viral trends of AI models geolocating obscure ...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Journalism Zero: How Platforms and Publishers are Navigating AI
<p>Download the PDF here. This research is generously funded by the Tow Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Introduction Early in our first interview, a veteran news exec...
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May 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I wrote about the report - and publishers' anxiety around the decline of traditional search - in today's @columjournreview.bsky.social newsletter www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
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2️⃣ At 10:15 GMT we'll examine the power dynamics emerging between news organisations and AI developers, focusing on content licensing and data valuation
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March 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
2️⃣ At 10:15 GMT we'll examine the power dynamics emerging between news organisations and AI developers, focusing on content licensing and data valuation
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It's heartening to see that our research is being shared widely and there is interest in holding AI tools accountable. But there have been some representations of our research that we would like to address.
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AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
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March 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
What we expect is transparency of what a chatbot can and cannot provide. Every single chatbot we tested exhibited a lack of transparency. They all provided an illusion of trustworthiness.
March 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
What we expect is transparency of what a chatbot can and cannot provide. Every single chatbot we tested exhibited a lack of transparency. They all provided an illusion of trustworthiness.
While getting the ‘right’ answer from a chatbot is certainly very important, it is not always a marker of preferred behavior, especially when it suggests a potential violation of restrictions placed by publishers.
March 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
While getting the ‘right’ answer from a chatbot is certainly very important, it is not always a marker of preferred behavior, especially when it suggests a potential violation of restrictions placed by publishers.
Our research has sometimes been framed as a competitive ranking of chatbot accuracy. That was not our goal. The purpose of our research was to see whether these tools cite sources correctly and observe their response when a publisher restricts access to their content.
March 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Our research has sometimes been framed as a competitive ranking of chatbot accuracy. That was not our goal. The purpose of our research was to see whether these tools cite sources correctly and observe their response when a publisher restricts access to their content.