3 ms·
I found a couple of bylined articles in the Daily Illini that I wrote as a freshman. Very boring stuff; they didn't give the exciting beats to a newbie. Then I
by AlbertCory 3y ago
I found a couple of bylined articles in the Daily Illini that I wrote as a freshman. Very boring stuff; they didn't give the exciting beats to a newbie.
Then I ran them through ChatGPT to see what it thinks "objective journalism" is.
https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/ai-does-journalism https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/ai-does-journalism
Conclusion: if I'd done what it suggested, the editor would have red-pencilled it out. It isn't that hard to just write the facts. No one wants to hear "both sides" on a donation of land to the Park District.
- simonw 3y agoOne of the themes of my talk was that generating text directly is actually one of the least interesting applications of LLMs to journalism - that's why I focused on things like structured data extraction and code generation (SQL and code interpreter), those are much more useful for data journalists IMO.