16 Journalism & AI quotes & tools

Beginner’s prompt handbook: ChatGPT for local news publishers - Joe Amditis

How to cover AI – a guide for journalists - The Fix 

Good journalism, in my view, is original and reveals previously unknown or hidden truths. Language models work by predicting the most likely next word in a sequence, based on existing text they’ve been trained on. So they cannot ultimately produce or uncover anything truly new or unexpected in their current form. Harvard’s Nieman Lab 

Machine learning can be deployed to help newsrooms identify and address biases that crop up in their own reporting, across text, photo, video, audio, and social media. The Fix 

A close examination of the work produced by CNET's AI makes it seem less like a sophisticated text generator and more like an automated plagiarism machine, casually pumping out pilfered work that would get a human journalist fired. Futurism 

It matters that the technology can fool regular people into believing there is intelligence or sentience behind it, and we should be writing about the risks and guardrails being built in that context. Harvard’s Nieman Lab 

Non-writing AI tools every journalist should know about. International Center for Journalists 

The "world's first" entirely AI-generated news site is here. It's called NewsGPT, and it seems like an absolutely horrible idea. Futurism

Artificial intelligence tools are now being used to populate so-called content farms, referring to low-quality websites around the world that churn out vast amounts of clickbait articles to optimize advertising revenue, NewsGuard found. NewsGuard

The Artifact news app lets AI rewrite a headline for you if you come across (a clickbait) article. TechCrunch

One area where MidJourney is helpful is food journalism. Need an image of a breakfast bowl with whole grain and blueberries? Just write a prompt. MidJourney is also excellent building basic templates for object cutaway diagrams. Mike Reilley’s Journalism Toolbox

With tools like ChatGPT in the hands of practically anybody with an internet connection, we're likely to see a lot more journalists having their names attached to completely made-up sources, a troubling side-effect of tech that has an unnerving tendency to falsify sourcing. Futurism

What if an AI could attend, take notes and write short, hallucination-free stories about public meetings? Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Can you design an AI system that attends a city meeting and generates a story? Yeah, I did it. This tech could soon — very soon — be a viable tool to save reporters time by covering hours-long public meetings. The technology could also lead to layoffs in some newsrooms. Harvard’s Nieman Lab

The publisher of Sports Illustrated and other outlets is using artificial intelligence to help produce articles and pitch journalists potential topics to follow. Wall Street Journal 

The owners of Sports Illustrated and Men’s Journal promised to be virtuous with AI. Then they bungled their very first ai story — and issued huge corrections when we caught them. Futurism