Matt Cooper and Ivan Yates were co-hosts of Path to Power until it emerged late last week that Yates had provided media training to Fianna Fáil's ill-starred presidential candidate, Jim Gavin. Photograph: Evan Doherty
When the New York Times’ (NYT) Hard Fork podcast turns its attention to artificial intelligence, its two hosts begin with familiar throat-clearing. Kevin Roose tells listeners he is an NYT journalist, and therefore employed by an organisation currently suing OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement. His co-host, Casey Newton, is not an NYT employee, but dutifully informs us his boyfriend works at Anthropic, another major AI company.
These routine disclosures have become something of a running joke. They are also a reminder that such facts matter.
Since this is a column about questions of transparency and conflicts of interest in Irish media, it falls to me to acknowledge that Inside Politics, the Irish Times
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