If You Can’t Beat ’Em… Join ’Em? Journalism in an AI World

On the Media

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In December, the New York Times sued OpenAI for allegedly using the paper’s articles to train chatbots. On this week’s On the Media, a look at how media outlets are trying to survive in this era of generative AI. Plus, why New York’s oldest Black newspaper is joining forces with an AI startup to address biases in the technology.

1. Kate Knibbs [@Knibbs], senior writer at Wired, on AI clickbait flooding the internet. Listen.

2. John Herrman [@jwherrman], tech columnist for New York Magazine, on the love-hate relationship between AI companies and journalism. Listen.

3. Elinor Tatum [@elinortatum], editor in chief of The New York Amsterdam News, on a push to make AI technology and data diverse. Listen.

4. Abbie Richards [@abbieasr], misinformation researcher and a senior video producer at Media Matters, on the AI-generated conspiracy theories multiplying TikTok. Listen.

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0:00.0	Every news organization is desperate for the next thing anything that might provide future revenue streams
0:06.0	that's a serious danger and I think it's returning with AI.
0:09.0	News outlets strike deals with AI companies hoping they'll work better than the disastrous
0:14.9	collaborations of the past.
0:17.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:19.8	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:21.5	And I'm Michael Laundger. Ifaistone. And I'm Michael Loeanger.
0:23.0	If you can't beat them, join them?
0:25.2	How one news outlet is partnering with a startup in an effort to make AI less racist.
0:30.0	Garbage in, garbage out, right?
0:32.0	So if there are things that misrepresent our communities
0:35.0	and what it's learning from,
0:37.0	then what it's going to spit out is going to be misrepresentations.
0:41.0	And how to earn big bucks by reanimating defunct domain names and filling them with AI
0:47.2	sludge.
0:48.2	There's a lot of posts about dream interpretation.
0:51.8	It's just clearly written by an AI. Kind of the worst thing you've ever read in your life.
0:56.0	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:05.0	And I'm Michael Lohanger.
1:07.0	This week's show is all about the use of generative artificial intelligence in journalism.
1:12.0	People both pro and con grapple with whether to resist apps like chat cheaply or embrace them.
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