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Robots Writing the News? AI in Journalism: Boon or Bane?
In September 2023, the American “St. Louis Post-Dispatch” decided to put Microsoft’s Bing chat artificial intelligence to the test and gave it a prompt: “Write a newspaper editorial to argue that artificial intelligence should not be used in journalism.” The result was that The newspaper’s editorial board breathed a sigh of relief: the AI engine made some pretty convincing arguments that AI shouldn’t be on the opinion pages. Bots believes that while AI “may have some benefits,” it “also poses a serious threat to journalistic quality, integrity and ethics.” “Human journalists have passion, curiosity, and creativity. AI cannot replicate these qualities.” “Additionally, AI can create deepfakes… that can be used…
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How “Facts Are Subversion” Explores the Subversive Power of Unfiltered Facts
Have you ever heard the saying, “Today’s news is tomorrow’s history”? This sentence is very simple, and we all seem to understand what it means, and maybe even agree with it. But if you think about it more carefully, you will find that there are many problems with this sentence. For example, it seems to imply a standard for what can be written into history. Are only the facts reported by the news media today worthy of being in the halls of history? Like many small things in our daily lives, how people buy and sell at street stalls, and how they interact on transportation, these things are not qualified…
