People significantly prefer news from human journalists over AI-produced news. The study surveyed readers across six countries — Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. — about their views of generative AI in news.

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-does-public-six-countries-think-generative-ai-news

What does the public in six countries think of generative AI in news?

People significantly prefer news from human journalists over AI-produced news. The study surveyed readers across six countries — Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. — about their views of generative AI in news.  https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-does-public-six-countries-think-generative-ai-news

Cyril

It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/bnn-breaking-ai-generated-news.html?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-13036&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop.  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/bnn-breaking-ai-generated-news.html?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-13036&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.

It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop.

Nate

NewsBreak, a news aggregator app, has published at least 40 false stories, many of which were AI-generated, a Reuters investigation found. The app publishes licensed content from news outlets like CNN and Fox, as well as local news and press releases obtained through AI-powered web scraping, which it rewrites using AI.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/top-news-app-us-has-chinese-origins-writes-fiction-with-help-ai-2024-06-05/

NewsBreak, a news aggregator app, has published at least 40 false stories, many of which were AI-generated, a Reuters investigation found. The app publishes licensed content from news outlets like CNN and Fox, as well as local news and press releases obtained through AI-powered web scraping, which it rewrites using AI.  https://www.reuters.com/technology/top-news-app-us-has-chinese-origins-writes-fiction-with-help-ai-2024-06-05/

Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined "Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns."

Cyril

A group of likeminded people in Artificial Intelligence are talking about this.