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AI can have a place in news, but it will never be a journalist

How will the news and journalism industries handle generative artificial intelligence? That’s the kind of broad and long-ranging question that it’s too soon to answer, mostly because we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what AI can do. Google recently ...

SAG and WGA strike over use of technology

With the Screen Actors Guild having now joined the Writers Guild of America in a walkout, the actors and writers of most of the nation’s film and television projects are striking together for the first time since 1960 (when SAG was helmed by a charismatic actor named Ronald Reagan). The ...

Chatbots created hundreds of ‘news’ websites

by Jim Warren Consider Hollywood’s evolving villains over the years: Nazis, Russians, South African white nationalists, Middle Eastern terrorists, South American drug lords, dinosaurs, aliens, Wall Street cutthroats and, now, Tim Robbins.  It’s Robbins as creepy ...

Don’t believe your lying eyes

Photos, videos not as reliable in the AI era by Parmy Olson A fake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral across Twitter on Monday, and stocks dipped. The incident confirmed what many have said for months: Misinformation is on course to be supercharged as new AI tools ...

The writers’ strike is partly about AI

by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers agree on one thing: Artificial intelligence is coming. At the same time, they disagree fundamentally on an issue that we will all soon struggle ...