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"Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has taken off at lightning speed in
the past couple of years, creating disruption in many industries. Newsrooms are
no exception.
A new report published today finds that news audiences and journalists alike
are concerned about how news organisations are – and could be – using
generative AI such as chatbots, image, audio and video generators, and similar
tools.
The report draws on three years of interviews and focus group research into
generative AI and journalism in Australia and six other countries (United
States, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, Germany and France).
Only 25% of our news audience participants were confident they had encountered
generative AI in journalism. About 50% were unsure or suspected they had.
This suggests a potential lack of transparency from news organisations when
they use generative AI. It could also reflect a lack of trust between news
outlets and audiences.
Who or what makes your news – and how – matters for a host of reasons.
Some outlets tend to use more or fewer sources, for example. Or use certain
kinds of sources – such as politicians or experts – more than others.
Some outlets under-represent or misrepresent parts of the community. This is
sometimes because the news outlet’s staff themselves aren’t representative of
their audience.
Carelessly using AI to produce or edit journalism can reproduce some of these
inequalities.
Our report identifies dozens of ways journalists and news organisations can use
generative AI. It also summarises how comfortable news audiences are with each.
The news audiences we spoke to overall felt most comfortable with journalists
using AI for behind-the-scenes tasks rather than for editing and creating.
These include using AI to transcribe an interview or to provide ideas on how to
cover a topic.
But comfort is highly dependent on context. Audiences were quite comfortable
with some editing and creating tasks when the perceived risks were lower."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
