
External Resources
Tracking changes in GenAI policy and impacts
​Legal Case Trackers​
ChatGPT is Eating the World, tracks pending legal cases regarding AI
Database of AI Litigation (DAIL), a database from George Washington Law School that presents information about ongoing and completed litigation involving artificial intelligence, including machine learning
WIRED Copyright Case Tracker, tracks every copyright battle involving the AI industry—along with some visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress
European Union AI Law Tracker, summarizes the EU’s proposed regulatory framework for AI; Although still evolving, it may affect any production that uses AI or sources AI services from the EU
Standards​
BBC Standards for AI Transparency
Partnership on AI (PAI) recommendations and 10-step guide
Standard Setting Bodies, a list highlighting both technical and ethical standards (via Starling Lab)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Your National History Day (NHD Project)
SAG-AFTRA — Artificial Intelligence Resource Center
UK Government Digital Service AI Guide
Data Provenance​
Content Authenticity Initiative, works to create a cross-industry system for providing media transparency to allow for better evaluation of content
Starling Lab, an academic research lab innovating cryptographic methods to meet the technical and ethical challenges of establishing trust in our most sensitive digital records
Project Origin, a collaboration between media organizations to combat disinformation by verifying source authenticity of video/audio ​
Related Organizations​​
Knowing Machines, a research project tracing the histories, practices, and politics of how machine learning (AI) systems are trained to interpret the world
Partnership on AI, a consortium of tech companies, nonprofits, and media organizations that develop best practices and frameworks for responsible AI
Witness Media Lab, an organization that develops, models, and supports innovative approaches to sourcing, verifying, and contextualizing eyewitness videos and ensuring that footage taken by average citizens can serve as an effective tool for human rights
The Synthesis, a monthly column from the International Documentary Association exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and documentary practice.
Ada Lovelace Institute, an explainer for anyone who wants to learn more about foundation models, also known as 'general-purpose artificial intelligence' or 'GPAI'​
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Readings/Videos/Podcasts on Impacts of Generative AI
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General​
OpenAI Reverses Stance on Use of Copyright Works in Sora (Wall Street Journal, Oct 3, 2025)
Deep Fusion ties with Topfoto on AI driven docs (Televisual, Oct 2, 2025)
Will AI Take My Job? with Karen Hao (Hassan Minhaj Doesn't Know, Sep 10, 2025)
Netflix releases guidelines for using generative AI in productions (Screen Daily, Aug 26, 2025)
Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain (TechDirt, Aug 8, 2025)
Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline? (Glam-E Lab, June 2025)
Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training (Washington Post, June, 2025)
Disney, Universal File First Major Studio Lawsuit Against AI Company (Variety, June 2025)
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem (The Atlantic, March 2025)
How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI (Wired, October 2024)
Inside the Race to Protect Artists from Artificial Intelligence (Scientific American, June 2024)
The Tricky Truth about How Generative AI uses your Data (Vox, July 2023)
Mapping the issues and uses of AI for journalism (Report by Public Service Medias: Alliance for Facts)
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Algorithmic Bias
OpenAI's Sora is Plagued by Sexist, Racist and Ableist Biases​ (Wired, March 2025)
Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (The Verge, February 2024)
How AI reduces the world to stereotypes (Rest of the World, October 2023)
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AI and the Environment
​The hidden environmental cost of generative AI and its toll on climate (USA Today, September 23, 2025)
Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact (MIT News, January 2025)
The Climate and Sustainability Implications of Generative AI (MIT, March 2024)
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AI and Labor
In a Volatile Landscape for AI and Labor Rights, Journalists at ABC Secure a Win (Columbia Journalism Review, February 2025)
How GenAI is Already Impacting the Labor Market (Harvard Business Review, November 2024)
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Beyond the USA
Denmark to give people copyright to their own features (Guardian, June, 2025)
Spain imposes fines for not labeling GenAI (Reuters, March 2025)
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Legal
Generative AI Meets Copyright (Citris and the Banatao Institute, April, 2023)
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