Newsrooms around the world are using AI to optimize work, despite concerns about bias and accuracy

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Journalism and other fields are dealing with a new wave of tools like Google Bard. | Image: Google

The arrival of generative artificial intelligence has accelerated the use of AI in different fields, including journalism. AI is most visible in journalism when things go wrong. Some newsrooms have published AI articles riddled with errors or offensive suggestions. There’s widespread anxiety that AI will be used to replace journalists on the cheap. But a new global survey demonstrates the ways that AI has worked its way into the business, even as journalists worry about its implications — and they don’t just involve writing articles.

The report was published this week by JournalismAI, an initiative from Polis, the London School of Economics and Political Science’s journalism think tank. It is supported by the Google News Initiative.

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894651/ai-newsroom-journalism-study-automation-bias

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