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Will AI Save Journalism -- or Kill It?

Knowledge at Wharton·@HashtagPLUS·about 1 month ago
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In the past year, you have most likely read a story that was written by a bot. Whether it’s a sports article, an earnings report or a story about who won the last congressional race in your district, you may not have known it but an emotionless artificial intelligence perhaps moved you to cheers, jeers or tears. By 2025, a bot could be writing 90% of all news , according to Narrative Science, whose software Quill turns data into stories. Many of the largest and most reputable news outlets in the world are using or dabbling in AI — such as The Washington Post , The Associated Press, BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , The Times and Sunday Times (U.K.), Japan’s national public broadcaster, NHK, and Finland’s STT. Last year, China’s Xinhua News Agency created the world’s first AI-powered news anchor , a male, using computer graphics. This year, it debuted the first AI female news anchor .…

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