AI's Growing Role in Journalism: Promise and Peril for the Future of News
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AI is already being used in newsrooms for things like transcribing interviews and summarizing articles. Its use will likely expand over time.
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AI can help journalists analyze large datasets and potentially uncover stories, improving accuracy and timeliness of news. But it could also enable low-quality spam content.
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Human journalists still have advantages over AI, like building long-term relationships with sources to gain inside information.
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AI's impact on journalism depends on how developers and newsrooms choose to use it - it could improve quality or prioritize quantity over quality.
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Larger news outlets will likely have the resources to build custom AI tools, potentially increasing inequalities between large and small publishers.