GenAI Penetrates Broadcast News Rooms at a Surprising Pace
It looks like TV and online news operations nationwide are already moving at breakneck speed to capitalize on a broadening range of benefits delivered by generative artificial intelligence.
Fears about the potential ramifications are well founded, according to Graham Media’s Michael Newman.
The focus on the efficiencies enabled by GenAI generates fear of job loss in the newsroom, he noted. With more content streaming around the world than ever before, there are worries about a growing pool of unreliable information that AI can draw from. And, he added, “We need humans to tell critical pieces of the story that AI misses.”
Surely that's part of the job, missing critical pieces of the story. Difficulties could arise if AI doesn't miss those critical pieces, but I'm sure humans will intervene to correct the stories. Just ask the BBC how it's done.
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Oh, dear. Does this mean that AI will rely on facts for its output? What will auntie and the grauniad do to keep up - oh, yes, they've got experts to quote.
But, but, can you guarantee that AI Woke(tm) won't go off the rails by just making stuff up? Journalists already report the news they want to report and leave out the difficult stuff and presumably they will help train the AI.
I have found using present day Large Language Models if the data isn't there the model will just seize bits of near enough text and assemble it into a grammatical answer which is untrue.
Go AI Woke, go AI broke.
Jannie - it's rather like driverless cars which always need somebody at the wheel. May as well be one of their 'experts' in this case.
DJ - I've come across untrue AI output where there are conflicting online claims, but the AI system didn't do a simple check to see that the claim it chose is false. At the moment it isn't obvious that media people would want to correct that in all cases.
I've been pondering that admitted liar who is in charge of the Beeb's censorship department. Should we call her Ms Information?
dearieme - ha ha, very good. I wonder if she's still there? Not easy to live it down.
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