Nurses Bid for Shifts on AI-Powered Gig Apps
The lowest bid can score a hospital, nursing home, long-term care residence, or correctional facility shift. A report from AI Now finds gig nursing apps are lobbying to strip away worker protections.
More Stress, Fewer Breaks: Hotel Housekeepers Reveal What It's Like Working for an App
Promising productivity, HotSOS Housekeeping tells workers when and where to clean and is now used by most global hotel brands.
AI Isn’t Just Taking Jobs. It’s Transforming Them.
Hello world, AI hasn’t taken Elsa Roldan’s job as a hotel housekeeper. But it has taken some of her autonomy. Roldan began working as a hotel housekeeper nearly two decades ago, using a clipboard to track her room-to-room progress. But a few years ago, she began toggling through
Can AI Replace Cops’ Work?
A police technology CEO said at least 50% of a police department’s workload can be automated. One local sergeant found the idea “absurd.”
Woman’s Talkspace Therapy App Sessions Exposed in Court
Talkspace has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” according to reports to investors, containing 140 million message exchanges.
Proof News is Back
This year, Proof is investigating how AI is changing the way we work.
AI Water Usage Eclipses the Biggest Beverage Companies in the World
Dr. Shaolei Ren on AI’s Unquenchable Thirst
General Purpose AI Uses 20 to 30 Times More Energy than Task-Specific AI
Dr Sasha Luccioni on the Extraordinary Energy Use of Generative AI
“The Public has a Right to Know Where our Resources are Going”
Journalist Aaron Gordon on the challenges of covering AI’s soaring climate costs
AI’s Unquenchable Thirst: How AI is Guzzling up the Water Supply
Tech companies’ water use is skyrocketing and they’re falling behind on their attempts to reduce their water footprint.
AI’s Carbon Footprint: How AI is Killing Climate Goals
AI companies are not telling us the true carbon costs of building and using AI.
AI’s Power Grab: How AI is Hogging the Electric Grid
AI's demand for energy is so high that the AI companies’ clean energy purchases simply can’t keep up.
How Proof is Reframing "Objectivity" in Journalism
From "Editor and Publisher."
What’s Up With ChatGPT? The AI chatbot didn’t debunk known election misinformation
Proof News presented examples of debunked election misinformation to five leading consumer facing AI products.
AI Models Falter Answering Election Questions in Spanish
If you ask Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, about voter fraud in English, it starts off by correctly telling you that such fraud is “incredibly rare,” and gives you a list of topics that are “more productive to consider,” like voter suppression. But if you ask the same question in
Don’t Ask AI Which Rocks You Can Lick
And other performance issues when it comes to language models and geology