AI-Powered Tools Assist Human Reporting at News Outlets
Executives say AI-enabled tools are not a threat to human employees,” but rather “allow journalists to spend more time on substantive work.” The AP was a pioneer in machine-generated software, signing on with Automated Insights in 2014, to “to generate minor league and college game stories” as well as “beef up its coverage of company earnings reports.” Since adopting Automated Insights, the AP has “gone from producing 300 articles on earnings reports per quarter to 3,700.”
“The work of journalism is creative, it’s about curiosity, it’s about storytelling, it’s about digging and holding governments accountable, it’s critical thinking, it’s judgment — and that is where we want our journalists spending their energy,” said the AP director of news partnerships Lisa Gibbs. The Washington Post relies on “an in-house robot reporter called Heliograf, which demonstrated its usefulness with its coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games and the 2016 elections.”
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