Show Your WorkArtificial Intelligence
How we tested and evaluated AI-generated dance videos
None of the videos produced by the leading AI platforms showed the actual dances we requested.
Mohamed Al Elew
Journalism Engineer
Mohamed Al Elew is a journalism engineer at The Markup, where they use data and software to produce investigative reporting. Before The Markup, Mohamed was a data reporter at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, where they investigated disparities in pandemic aid lending, oil drilling near schools and daycares, and violence at abortions clinics. They were a Livingston Awards co-finalist for the Banking on Inequity series.
They studied computer science at the University of California, San Diego, where they were a research scholar at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and served as editor-in-chief of The Triton, the school’s independent student newsroom.
(Photograph by Arlene Banuelos for The Triton.)
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI is eating culture. See how close it’s getting to disrupting dance
Dancers say their craft can’t be duplicated by AI. Our tests show they’re right — for now.
Privacy
California police are illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol
LAPD and the counties of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside have repeatedly shared automated license plate reader data to federal agencies
Trump Is Creating a Deportation Army of Local Cops
The number of state and local ICE partnerships has spiked this year—especially in Florida
Tools
Here’s Every Local Police Agency Enforcing for ICE
Partnerships more than doubled during the first months of Trump's current term under a program known as 287(g)
Premium Penalty
Michigan’s “Fair and Reasonable” Reforms Allowed Car Insurers to Charge More in Black Neighborhoods
An investigation by The Markup and Outlier Media found lawmakers created loopholes big enough to drive through
Show Your WorkPremium Penalty
How We Investigated Car Insurance Loopholes in Michigan
We found that Michigan’s reforms allowed auto insurers to charge higher rates in Black neighborhoods
Hello World
A New, Dirty Vision for Higher Education
An interview with Julia Schleck, who argues that rather than serving the public good, universities should be a forum to define and debate the public good
Automated Censorship
حجب، حذف، ورفض: هناك أكثر من مجرد ”حظر الظل“ على الإنستغرام
وجد تحقيق أجرته ”ذا مارك آب“ أن منصة الإنستغرام حجبت صور متعلقة بالحرب على غزة، وحذفت التسميات التوضيحية دون سابق إنذار، وحرمت المستخدمين من خيار الاستئناف.
Automated Censorship
Demoted, Deleted, and Denied: There’s More Than Just Shadowbanning on Instagram
An investigation by The Markup found that the platform demoted images of the Israel–Hamas war, deleted captions without warning, and denied users the option to appeal
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