‘Nothing is ready for prime time’: Journalists push back against publications’ race to have newsrooms use generative AI tools
Journalists have a message for their employers: generative AI tools are not good enough yet for writing articles.
Digiday spoke to seven journalists at five digital publishers experimenting with artificial intelligence tools to find out what they thought about their organizations testing the technology to create content. All of them said they wanted their managers to proceed with caution. Their stance is the technology is not good enough for content generation (yet), and ultimately they’re concerned that the adoption of AI for editorial purposes is a threat to their jobs.
“I’m not sure that the technology is ready [in] the way that managers of newsrooms think it is,” said one G/O Media employee, who requested anonymity in order to speak freely. “I don’t think any of us are very fired up about being the guinea pigs [and] having the outlets that we represent being the guinea pigs for this.”
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