{"id":90846,"date":"2024-03-05T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=90846"},"modified":"2024-03-05T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T18:21:09","slug":"how-ai-is-changing-the-news-journalism-business-other-items-re-ai-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/03\/05\/how-ai-is-changing-the-news-journalism-business-other-items-re-ai-in-general\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI is changing the news\/journalism business + other items re: AI in general"},"content":{"rendered":"

How AI Is Already Transforming the News Business<\/strong><\/a> — from politico.com by Jack Shafer
\nAn expert explains the promise and peril of artificial intelligence.<\/em><\/p>\n

The early vibrations of AI have already been shaking the newsroom. One downside of the new technology surfaced at\u00a0CNET and\u00a0Sports Illustrated, where editors let AI run amok with disastrous results. Elsewhere in news media, AI is already writing headlines, managing paywalls to increase subscriptions, performing transcriptions, turning stories in audio feeds, discovering emerging stories, fact checking, copy editing\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n

Felix M. Simon<\/a>, a doctoral candidate at Oxford, recently published a\u00a0white paper about AI\u2019s journalistic future<\/a>\u00a0that eclipses many early studies. Swinging a bat from a crouch that is neither doomer nor Utopian, Simon heralds both the downsides and promise of AI\u2019s introduction into the newsroom and the publisher\u2019s suite.<\/p>\n

Unlike earlier technological revolutions, AI is poised to change the business at every level. It will become \u2014 if it already isn\u2019t \u2014 the beginning of most story assignments and will become, for some, the new assignment editor. Used effectively, it promises to make news more accurate and timely. Used frivolously, it will spawn an ocean of spam. Wherever the production and distribution of news can be automated or made \u201csmarter,\u201d AI will surely step up. But the future has not yet been written, Simon counsels. AI in the newsroom will be only as bad or good as its developers and users make it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, and Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena<\/strong><\/a> — from cjr.org by Felix Simon<\/p>\n

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