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February 7, 2026
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Jonathan Cook If you struggle to cope with the endless pressure to communicate in an ever-more connected world, spare a thought for the late serial paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The flood of three million documents released by the US Department of Justice last weekend confirm ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/07/jonathan-cook-the-criminal-elite-exposed-in-the-epstein-files-are-burying-the-truth/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2025
By Kalafi Moala in Nuku’alofa On this World Press Freedom Day, we in the Pacific stand together to defend and promote the right to freedom of expression — now facing new and complex challenges in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This year’s global theme is “Reporting a Brave New World: The impact of Artificial ... <a title="PINA on World Press Freedom Day – facing new and complex AI challenges" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/05/pina-on-world-press-freedom-day-facing-new-and-complex-ai-challenges/" aria-label="Read more about PINA on World Press Freedom Day – facing new and complex AI challenges">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2025
RNZ Pacific Autonomous Bougainville Government President Ishmael Toroama has condemned the circulation of an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video depicting a physical confrontation between him and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape. The clip, first shared on Facebook last week, is generated from the above picture of Toroama and Marape taken at a news conference ... <a title="Bougainville president condemns ‘dangerous’ AI-generated fake video of scuffle with Marape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/07/bougainville-president-condemns-dangerous-ai-generated-fake-video-of-scuffle-with-marape/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville president condemns ‘dangerous’ AI-generated fake video of scuffle with Marape">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Dr Gavin Ellis Integrity is the most valued element of a news organisation’s reputation. Without it, it cannot expect its audience to lend credence to what it publishes or broadcasts. So, The New Zealand Herald has dealt itself an awful blow. Its admission that ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: AI-created editorials: What in HAL’s name was the Herald thinking?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/06/gavin-ellis-ai-created-editorials-what-in-hals-name-was-the-herald-thinking/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: AI-created editorials: What in HAL’s name was the Herald thinking?">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
RNZ News Media publisher NZME has come under fire for admitting it used artificial intelligence to create editorials that ran in the Weekend Herald and other publications, with a media commentator saying it “can only damage trust”. RNZ’s Mediawatch revealed late yesterday that NZME had used AI to write an editorial about “Who the All ... <a title="NZME cops criticism after using AI to write rugby editorial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/nzme-cops-criticism-after-using-ai-to-write-rugby-editorial/" aria-label="Read more about NZME cops criticism after using AI to write rugby editorial">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2023
Stuff New Zealand’s Stuff media group has joined other leading news organisations around the world in restricting Open AI from using its content to power artificial intelligence tool Chat GPT. A growing number of media companies globally have taken action to block access to Open AI bots from crawling and scraping content from their news ... <a title="Stuff joins global media groups curbing Open AI from using news sites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/12/stuff-joins-global-media-groups-curbing-open-ai-from-using-news-sites/" aria-label="Read more about Stuff joins global media groups curbing Open AI from using news sites">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2023
COMMENTARY: By Kayt Davies in Perth I wasn’t good at French in my final year of high school. My classmates had five years of language studies behind them. I had three. As a result of my woeful grip on the language, I wrote a terribly bad essay in my final French exam. The more I ... <a title="Kayt Davies: AI will take media jobs but will free up time for fun stuff" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/04/kayt-davies-ai-will-take-media-jobs-but-will-free-up-time-for-fun-stuff/" aria-label="Read more about Kayt Davies: AI will take media jobs but will free up time for fun stuff">Read more</a>
