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Current AI has no place in news.
You're questioning if you crossed a line? Good grief. Of course you crossed a line. If deadlines are crushing, you just deal with it, that's the job. You don't turn things over to a glorified web scraper. And it shouldn't take long for someone to write breaking news alerts, it seems like it would take longer to have an AI tool deal with it.
You personally haven't crossed a line, but the repprter/ editorial team has by not doing the work themselves
Sometimes that causes more work. You have to be so mindful of verifying everything and remaining credible. A few slips due to AI, and that all goes down the drain.
In a dream world it's a great tool but the fact checking, spell checking, plagarisation checking makes it not worth it
This should not be anywhere near your process to putting out breaking news alerts. Line was crossed in dramatic fashion.
To me, the principle is fine — we’ve always used tools to work faster and cheaper. The question is which AI and how you use it. GPT is known for “hallucinations,” and it’s owned by corporate interests tied to media and advertising, so you risk both errors and data being fed back into their systems.
That said, pretending we can survive without AI is naïve. Newsrooms are stretched, and AI can help — but only if used carefully and within robust systems. There are safer, more ethical/smart options (e.g. independent or offline models or other AI, more transparent, like Le Chat by Mistral) .
When people say “don’t use AI,” I’m reminded of the same panic over Photoshop or desktop publishing — the tools weren’t the problem, it was corporations squeezing workers and monopolising profits. The real fight isn’t against AI, it’s against exploitation and bad implementation.
Totally okay to use AI to help you draft a headline or alert, so long as you / your team are putting the final eyes on it, and editing/rewriting as needed. Work smarter, not harder. Why would you not use a tool that is at your disposal?
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I assume that the reporter provided the input for this story rather than AI reaching out for what may be the work of others. I have used it to look over some of my writing. I tend to have fat fingers and have typos I won't catch unless I really slow down.
If would be abhorrent if that was the case.
I wouldn't use AI to write copy. I use it to look over what I have written, primarily to catch errors.
Journalistic integrity and ChatGPT are inherently incompatible. I understand the need for solutions when staff is stretched thin, but generative AI programs are not it.
I personally wouldn't use ChatGPT for this, if only to ensure that the copy was organic and that any errors were those of the reporter, not AI -- reminiscent of the Chicago Sun Times freelancer (I think) that used AI to create its summer reading list. Needless to say, it went terribly wrong to the point that the paper had to not only issue a correction, but also admit that the writer used AI. It was a debacle. To the second point of how to create copy while reporting staff are stretched thin and shrinking, I've no answer.
I think the line gets blurry here. AI can churn out fast copy, but breaking news deserves human judgment. For me, I would only use it to support, not to publish outright. Accuracy has to come first.
ChatGPT is completely banned from my company- to be honest I thought this was the normal in our line of work!