Category: AI in the newsroom
ChatGPT six months on: Insight from 12 news leaders on generative AI and journalism | PRESSGAZETTE
“Realness will have a premium. It’s going to be even more important to have trusted brands.” Nick Thompson, The Atlantic The UK’s PressGazette canvasses for opinions about generative AI from: SEE FULL ARTICLE ChatGPT six months on: Insight from 12…
Letter from the editor on generative AI and the FT | FINANCIAL TIMES
“FT journalism in the new AI age will continue to be reported and written by humans who are the best in their fields and who are dedicated to reporting on and analysing the world as it is, accurately and fairly.”…
What Reuters is telling its journalists about using artificial intelligence | TALKING BIZ NEWS
“. . .exploring the possibilities afforded by the new generation of tools is not optional – though we are still examining how to make most appropriate use of them. “ Reuters memo An internal memo posted by TBN details Reuters‘ thinking…
Irish Times apologises for hoax AI article about women’s use of fake tan | THE GUARDIAN
“It has also underlined one of the challenges raised by generative AI for news organisations. We, like others, will learn and adapt.” Ruadhan Mac Cormaic, editor of Irish Times The Guardian reports on an incident involving Irish Times and a…
Bloomberg hiring AI ethics & policy reporter
“We aim to hire someone with a profound appreciation of both the potential benefits and unintended harms resulting from chatbots, robots, online search, voice assistants, facial recognition, fraud detection, crime prevention and the gamut of other AI applications.” Bloomberg Job…
Artificial intelligence is remixing journalism into a “soup” of language | THE ECONOMIST
“AI ‘is going to change journalism more in the next three years than journalism has changed in the last 30 years’, predicts David Caswell of BBC News.” The Economist The Economist surveys the state of journalism with AI, updated with a…
Letter from the editor: How generative AI is shaping the future of journalism and our newsroom | VENTUREBEAT
“To be explicitly clear, we do not blindly copy and paste what tools like ChatGPT generate, nor do we let AI write entire stories. Instead, we will use AI to inspire and strengthen our work — overcoming writer’s block, improving our…
AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms | BLOOMBERG
“Some are dressed up as breaking news sites with generic-sounding names like News Live 79 and Daily Business Post, while others share lifestyle tips, celebrity news or publish sponsored content.” Davey Alba The U.S. journalism watchdog, NewsGuard, has identified multiple websites…
How Important Is It to You That a Human Writes the News You Read? | BLOOMBERG
“Nuñez said VentureBeat is encouraging reporters to use the powerful AI tools that are currently available, and doesn’t attribute an article with “sentences and fragments” from a chatbot “as long as it’s truthful” and independently verified. ‘I don’t think our…
AI journalism: the next generation | INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM FESTIVAL
Four leading journalism thinkers discuss the implications of AI systems for journalists and journalism. The panel is moderated by Charlie Beckett, Professor at the London School of Economics and head of the journalism & Ai project within POLIS, LSE’s journalism…
The ethics of using generative AI to create journalism: What we know so far | PRESS GAZETTE
“The conversation has rapidly evolved over the past six months as these new chatbots are so much more user-friendly than previous versions, increasing the possibilities of using them on a day-to-day basis.” Charlotte Tobitt PressGazette surveys how news organizations are…
Insider’s newsroom will start experimenting with AI | AXIOS
“The company will set up a working group first to test ways to responsibly incorporate AI into its workflow before rolling out a set of AI rules and best practices to the broader newsroom..” Sara Fischer AXIOS talks with Insider’s…
Kuwait news outlet unveils AI-generated presenter Fedha | BBC NEWS
“Abdullah Boftain, deputy editor-in-chief for Kuwait News, told AFP news agency the move tested AI’s potential to offer ‘new and innovative content”‘” Antoinette Radford The latest AI news presenter has debuted in Kuwait. Named “Fedha,” the AI figure was announced…
What can journalists do that AI can’t? | CANADIAN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION
This panel considers the possibilities, uses, and pitfalls of using AI systems in newsrooms. It is moderated by Felix M. Simon, of the Oxford Internet Institute. The panellists: SEE VIDEOApril 2023
ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re responding | THE GUARDIAN
“. . . the question for responsible news organisations is simple, and urgent: what can this technology do right now, and how can it benefit responsible reporting at a time when the wider information ecosystem is already under pressure from…
How automation is becoming ‘intelligent friend’ in UK local media newsrooms | PRESS GAZETTE
“Interview responses from local practitioners showed that, while most perceive the relevance of automated journalism to local news reporting as less important than human reporter contributions, they paradoxically report a shift in their practices towards greater use of automated journalism….
What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a domain-specific AI for business news | NEIMAN LAB
“A corpus of all of the world’s premium English-language business reporting — plus the universe of financial data, structured and otherwise, that underpins it — is just the sort of rich vein of information a generative AI is designed to…
Publishers Worry A.I. Chatbots Will Cut Readership | THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s head of Bing, said in an interview that directing users to click through to publishers was ‘a top goal.’ And although the new Bing has been around for less than two months, the data was ‘already showing…
Is ChatGPT a threat or an opportunity for journalism? Five AI experts weigh in | REUTERS INSTITUTE
“. . . media companies have an opportunity to become a major player in the space – they possess some of the most valuable assets for AI development: text data for training models and ethical principles for creating reliable and…
WIRED tells readers what it will use generative AI for — and what’s off-limits | NEIMAN LAB
“It may seem counterintuitive for a publication like Wired to have a policy of mostly not using AI,” Lichfield told me. “But I think people appreciate both the transparency and the attempt to define clear standards that emphasize what quality journalism is…
“This will be dangerous in elections” – Political Media’s Next Big Challenge is Navigating AI Deepfakes | VANITY FAIR
“Over at The Verge, staff are ‘on guard,’ editor Nilay Patel tells me, while noting that this isn’t the first time newsrooms have geared up for a deluge of deepfakes. ‘What our newsroom took away from 2020 was that the…
How WIRED Will Use Generative AI Tools | WIRED
“(Generating story ideas) may save some time and we will keep exploring how this can be useful. But some limited testing we’ve done has shown that it can also produce false leads or boring ideas.” Gideon Lichfield WIRED defines more…
ChatGPT & DALL-E: What Generative AI means for journalism | AP
The Associated Press was amongst the earliest users of Ai in journalism and convened this panel to consider the impact of generative models on journalistic practices. Moderated by the AP’s Aimee Rhinhart, the panellists are: New York & online |…
German publisher Axel Springer says journalists could be replaced by AI | THE GUARDIAN
“Understanding this change is essential to a publishing house’s future viability. . . Only those who create the best original content will survive.” Mathias Doepfner THE GUARDIAN reports on an internal memo to employees at Axel Springer, the German-based publisher,…
Meet the first-ever artificial intelligence editor at the Financial Times | NEIMAN LAB
“The job is to break news and dive deep into how AI technologies work, how they’ll be applied across industries, and the ripple effects on business and society.“ Madhumita Murgia “First-first” AI editor Madhumita Murgia describes how she’ll examine AI impacts…
Regional publisher considers using robots to help journalists write news | HOLD THE FRONT PAGE
“Reach plc has formed a working group to determine the extent to which chatbots, programmes that allow robots to hold direct online conversations with humans, could help in aiding reporters covering topics such as weather and traffic reports.“ David Sharman, HTFP….
How chatbots can change journalism. Or not. | SEMAFOR
“. . . complaining that they’re bad at journalism is like being angry at Excel because it doesn’t draw pictures well.” Gina Chua Augmented journalism pioneer Gina Chua suggests the most significant use for current large language models (LLMs) is…
Impress launches new standards code with lower discrimination threshold and AI future-proofing | PRESS GAZETTE
“Impress’ guidance on the Standards Code’s accuracy requirements now says publishers need to “be aware of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology to create and circulate false content (for example, deepfakes), and exercise human editorial oversight to…
What Could ChatGPT Do for News Production? | MEDIUM
“In virtually all cases additional work is needed to evaluate the quality of output for the tasks. In general, I would not recommend using ChatGPT for these tasks without a strict and close editorial process for fact-checking outputs before anything is…
AI is in the news. 7 thoughts to reflect on what that means | POLIS
“Some more complex AI models like neural networks can be notorious for the “black box” ways in which they work: it’s hard to decipher how they reach the conclusions they do based on vast datasets. That’s why experts are now…