Post by jameshoff on Mar 13, 2024 3:11:14 GMT -5
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will stand behind journalists. To suggest how to make more interesting, more accurate, more relevant stories. Here's what happens in the world of information in the year 2024. Until now there were, at most, Directors and Editors behind the journalists, now there will also be AI. And just over a year has passed since the public launch of ChatGPT, the first "automatic response" system to any question. We read this in Reuters' Digital News Report 2024, an annual event , edited by Nicola Newman, to understand where journalism stands, through interviews with 300 media workers in various roles from 50 countries. SOME AND OTHERS. At the end of a thoughtful analysis, the Report reads: “Some believe that synthetic and unreliable content will strengthen trust in journalism.
Others fear that the public will lose trust in all information, further DY Leads undermining democracies around the world." In 1978, when AI was not on the horizon, the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote: “If everyone lies to you all the time, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but that no one believes anything anymore.” SECTOR IN THE BALANCE. World of information in the balance, surfing among very high waves. But not necessarily headed for disaster. 47 percent of those interviewed are confident about the prospects of journalism in 2024. Only 12 percent are disheartened. The others -41 percent- suspend judgment. CONCERNS. Rising costs, declining advertising, slowing subscription growth, increasing physical and legal harassment. FORWARD-LOOKING. Forward-looking news organizations will seek to create unique content and experiences that cannot be replicated by AI. Live news. In-depth analyses. Human experiences that create connections. Longer audio and video. DEPLOYMENTS. AI creators and publishers will face each other from two trenches.
On the one hand, “the destructive power of AI will wipe out a lot of information space”: it is expected that the vast majority of Internet content will be produced synthetically by 2026. Within three years. On the other hand, the media will build more barriers to access their content and pay expensive lawyers to protect intellectual property. PERMIT PROHIBITED. In 2023, 50 percent of publishers prevented AI from accessing their content (80 percent in the US). The German publisher Springer, on the other hand, has signed an agreement with Open AI (ChatGPT) which will bring tens of millions of euros a year into its coffers for the use of historical and new content. JOBS. In the United States in 2023, 20,000 "media jobs" were lost, six times the jobs lost in 2022. They closed 2/3 local newspapers a week, creating "news deserts" in those places. . Others survive without a single permanent reporter, with synthetic or shared content from other media: these are "ghost newsrooms". SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MEMBERSHIP.
Others fear that the public will lose trust in all information, further DY Leads undermining democracies around the world." In 1978, when AI was not on the horizon, the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote: “If everyone lies to you all the time, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but that no one believes anything anymore.” SECTOR IN THE BALANCE. World of information in the balance, surfing among very high waves. But not necessarily headed for disaster. 47 percent of those interviewed are confident about the prospects of journalism in 2024. Only 12 percent are disheartened. The others -41 percent- suspend judgment. CONCERNS. Rising costs, declining advertising, slowing subscription growth, increasing physical and legal harassment. FORWARD-LOOKING. Forward-looking news organizations will seek to create unique content and experiences that cannot be replicated by AI. Live news. In-depth analyses. Human experiences that create connections. Longer audio and video. DEPLOYMENTS. AI creators and publishers will face each other from two trenches.
On the one hand, “the destructive power of AI will wipe out a lot of information space”: it is expected that the vast majority of Internet content will be produced synthetically by 2026. Within three years. On the other hand, the media will build more barriers to access their content and pay expensive lawyers to protect intellectual property. PERMIT PROHIBITED. In 2023, 50 percent of publishers prevented AI from accessing their content (80 percent in the US). The German publisher Springer, on the other hand, has signed an agreement with Open AI (ChatGPT) which will bring tens of millions of euros a year into its coffers for the use of historical and new content. JOBS. In the United States in 2023, 20,000 "media jobs" were lost, six times the jobs lost in 2022. They closed 2/3 local newspapers a week, creating "news deserts" in those places. . Others survive without a single permanent reporter, with synthetic or shared content from other media: these are "ghost newsrooms". SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MEMBERSHIP.