Posted on 03/19/2023 4:09:08 AM PDT by FarCenter
Paris (AFP) – Journalists had fun last year asking the shiny new AI chatbot ChatGPT to write their columns, most concluding that the bot was not good enough to take their jobs. Yet.
But many commentators believe journalism is on the cusp of a revolution where mastery of algorithms and AI tools that generate content will be a key battleground.
The technology news site CNET perhaps heralded the way forward when it quietly deployed an AI program last year to write some of its listicles.
It was later forced to issue several corrections after another news site noticed that the bot had made mistakes, some of them serious.
But CNET's parent company later announced job cuts that included editorial staff -- though executives denied AI was behind the layoffs.
The German publishing behemoth Axel Springer, owner of Politico and German tabloid Bild among other titles, has been less coy.
"Artificial intelligence has the potential to make independent journalism better than it ever was –- or simply replace it," the group's boss Mathias Doepfner told staff last month.
Hailing bots like ChatGPT as a "revolution" for the industry, he announced a restructuring that would see "significant reductions" in production and proofreading.
Both companies are pushing AI as a tool to support journalists, and can point to recent developments in the industry.
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Great now we can have fake al news.
Journalism is dead! It has become propaganda and editorial hit pieces. How about telling both sides of a story so they can make up their own mind?
Journalism is dead! It has become propaganda and editorial hit pieces. How about telling both sides of a story so they can make up their own mind?
What’s the difference between these Marxist journalists and programmed robots?
The bad: some writers will be out of work.
The good: Writers might up their game (in terms of better research and better writing) when they have to compete with AI.
Hair. Robots don’t (yet) have hair or stubble.;-)
>> Journalism is dead! It has become propaganda and editorial hit pieces.
AI “journalists” will be groomed to produce the same.
“Communications” is not about informing the populus, it’s about shaping their thought processes to serve an agenda.
Yeah but the AI will be able to spell and correctly write a declarative sentence.
Yeah but the AI will be able to spell and correctly write a declarative sentence.
I believe Wikipedia is biased and therefore not a perfect model of a better future, but I like that general direction. What if the key piece were a warehouse of very short pieces of information which had been (truly!) fact-checked. Like a dictionary, almost. Just a great big pile of information which every decent person knew to be true, or else a set of statements over which people disagreed.
An AI could dip into this warehouse and construct stories or answers to suit any human’s curiosity. But someone would need to fill the warehouse and make sure that the content wasn’t twisted. It’s Garbage In-Garbage Out, so the big warehouse needs to be solid: that way the AI wouldn’t twist things.
Less puppet heads reading the narrative, we will get the fake news form a control group of elitists globalists
An AI may “write” the paper but it will still be reviewed and tweaked by some woke spin doctor masquerading as a journalist.
Right, the output of the AI journalist will depend on how it is trained and the material that it is trained on.
If it is trained on the same information as human journalists, and utilizes the same strategies for collecting new information, then the AI journalist will produce the same biased stories.
It’s been a long, long time since there was great writing from true newsmen and reporters.
I doubt the arrival of algorithmic “AI” will change anything — there’s no genuine creativity or style from modern “journalists” as it is.
The robots have better grammar.
Very little. Tagline says it with every post.
What's so bad about that? Maybe they'll get real jobs.
The good: Writers might up their game ...
I'm not holding my breath. See Tagline.
If a “journalist” is simply re-writing the party line for a living, they are SOL.
If a journalist is thinking and presenting new ideas, new perspectives, or investigating and delivering new information (the real meaning of “news”), then they will be just fine.
And AI should be able to include
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