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BBC Staff Raise Concerns About Director-General’s Praise For AI-Generated ‘Doctor Who’

EXCLUSIVE: Some BBC employees would like Matt Brittin to travel back in time and scrub from the record his comments about an AI-generated episode of Doctor Who. During a staff town hall on Wednesday, BBC insiders voiced concerns about Brittin’s comments at the Royal Television Society London Convention last week, in which the director-general said […]

BBC Staff Raise Concerns About Director-General’s Praise For AI-Generated ‘Doctor Who’

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EU AI Transparency Rules Take Effect in 2026: What Businesses Must Disclose

The EU AI Act will introduce new transparency duties for businesses that provide or deploy certain AI systems from 2 August 2026 .

  • EU AI Act takes effect August 2, 2026, requiring AI transparency.
  • Article 50 mandates disclosure when individuals interact with AI systems.
  • Deployers must disclose deepfakes and AI-generated public-interest text.

Making LLM ratings auditable: quotes, limitations, and "can't judge" instead of zero

I'm building a side project, WeChat Source . It's a directory that helps Chinese readers find WeChat Official Accounts (the newsletter-style publications inside WeChat).

  • Each account rated on 20 most recent articles with 6,000-character limit
  • Ratings include quotes, limitations, and clarification of scoring scale
  • "Can't judge" indicates quote verification failure, not zero score

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