Africa-Press – Lesotho. While the AI tool could have some journalists wondering, when exactly, their job may become obsolete, those who were pitched the program had different reactions.
A newly surfaced report revealed late Wednesday that Google is testing a product that may help boot humans from the journalism industry and launch the start of AI reporters.
The tool, which is named “Genesis,” has already started to make the rounds and was pitched to outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Insiders said that the AI technology could serve as a potentially helpful tool for journalists, some executives said the software was “unsettling.
” But at least two of those familiar with the matter looked at the AI technology, and said it seemed to take for granted the effort and creativity that goes into creating news stories.
“If this technology can deliver factual information reliably, journalists should use the tool,” said Jeff Jarvis, director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
Journalists have been grappling with how to handle AI technology for some time. In January, the website CNET corrected several of their stories after it was pointed out by a competing outlet that some of their articles contained numerous falsehoods, a turn of events that prompted the revelation that the news pieces were bot-written.
But in 2017, the Washington Post revealed their AI tool called “ModBot,” which was created not to write stories, but to moderate comments left by readers across their website.
As for Google, some publishers and other online creators have criticized the company (as well as other tech companies pioneering AI technology) for using decades worth of their articles and other content to train the AI systems, which threaten to replace their line of work, without any compensation.
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