The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI

The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI

Erlend Ofte Arntsen has filed more Freedom of Information Act requests than he can count — triple digits by one tally, quadruple when you include follow-ups and related requests. Now, a new newsroom assistant at one of Norway’s largest newspapers is transforming Arntsen’s workflow, saving time that could be better spent on shoe-leather reporting than arguing in legalese with government bureaucrats. That assistant is called FOIA Bot and is powere…

The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI (NiemanLab) | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

NiemanLab: The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI . “For many, AI and journalism remain an unholy marriage. Can a machine really atomize the entire journalistic process down into database-friendly chunks and vectors? What gets lost in the process of summarization? Are publishers mounting an unwinnable battle for attention against a new crop of Big Tech giants? And what if the genie is alr…