• AI in Journalism

  General Thoughts to Start

  Posted by Founder Chuck on April 2, 2023 at 10:27 pm

  Risks

  • Single Company outcompeting all local journalists
  • Bad actors generating complex and difficult to dispel lies
  • Sloppy/lazy journalism
  • Foreign bad actors both private and state
  • Human differance to ai

  • For instance if a chat bot is created to assist citizen’s navigating laws and codes. Officials may simply differ to the ai b/c of ease regardless of accuracy.
  • The risk is that the ai may be allowed to create rules or laws or interpretations de facto.

  Benefits

  • Increased capacity for telling stories
  • Increased capacity for gathering data
  • Story optimization ( many ways to interpret this)

  What’s left for human generated content?

  • Content that isn’t readily accessible or available to ai. Such as individual’s solicited comments
  • Bringing attention to ignored stuff
  • Investigative Journalism
  • Human interest stories.
  • Being a human
  • Artisan
  • Acting as 3rd parties in information/Propaganda campaigns ( discerning the truth from the lies)
  • Personal experiences
  • Personal opinions
  • Be champions of truth
  • Secrets and data that require foia
  • ai will likely use engagement as a means to verify or determine value or relevance of a story. However, relevance may not be something that is predictable. Somethings must be said that are not necessarily desired to be heard.
  • Subversion of government censorship
  • Guardians of Reality
  • Exposing truths ( bad cops, etc…)
  • Empathy

  Is there any reason to worry about hyper hyper local news. That is news that is custom generated for a single person? Does this increase the chance of malicious individuals attempting to manipulate public or individual opinions?? Perhaps this is where newspapers/orgs can stay relevant. They can provide accurate non engineered news. This would make a good white paper

  White paper topics

  • Ethical use of ai in journalism
  • Bylines…
  • Maintaining relevance
  • Threats to truth. How to counter ill intended agents who will use ai to fabricate lies.
  • Ai access to local news content. Should we block ai’s from accessing our content?

  AI as a tool in Journalism

  • User specific display ads

  Big question what value will humans add to the journalistic process in an ai world ?

  • Human Will
  • Trust

  Need to increase our interaction with students/the next generation

  As a Tool

  • Use it to scrape the internet for leads
  • Can we build something that follows criminal charges from arrest to conviction or exoneration?

  Challenges

  • Convincing a society with limitless access to ai content that local news still has value and should be supported.

  Possibly Manifestation

  • Custom content generated on demand

  Solutions and ideas

  • AI search engines should be charged a fee for using any content from a newspaper. Fee should be set by the publisher and be present in an ai.txt file

  Founder Chuck replied 3 years, 6 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies

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