The New York Times has apparely confirmed the use of artificial ielligence tools for its news room staff. These tools are used to edit text, summarize information, coding and writing. According to SEMAFOR reports, the magazine announced in an iernal email that product and editing staff will have access to artificial ielligence -related tutorials and iroduced a new iernal tool called ECHO to summarize articles, hold news sessions and other company activities.
According to reports, new editing guidelines have been se to employees for the use of ECHO and other artificial ielligence tools. These guidelines encourage news room staff to use these tools to propose editing and reforms in their work and to summarize, advertising texts for social networks and SEO titles.
A mandatory tutorial video shared with employees provides examples such as using artificial ielligence to prepare news tests, quotation cards and conveional questions, or suggesting questions for an ierview with a startup CEO. There are, of course, limitations; The company has told employees that they should not use artificial ielligence to write or major changes in an article, bypass paymes, eer third -party publication, or publish images and videos produced by artificial ielligence without obvious label.
It is still unclear how much of the text edited by artificial ielligence will be used in articles published in the New York Times. In a note last year, the magazine promised that the Times journalist would always be reported, written and edited by specialist reporters, and a few mohs later this commitme to human participation confirmed. The principles of the Times productive artificial ielligence approved on May 1:
“Productive artificial ielligence can sometimes help parts of our process, but work must always be done by managing and responsible reporters. Regardless of how the report is produced, we are always responsible for what we report. “Any use of productive artificial ielligence in the newsroom should begin with the actual information approved by our reporters and, like our other products, be reviewed by editors.”
Along with the ECHO tool, other artificial ielligence tools apparely approved for use in the New York Times include GitHub Copilot as a programming assista, Google Vertex AI for product developme, Notebooklm, ChatExplorer Times, Non -ChatGPT APIs and some Amazon Artificial Ielligence products They are.
These artificial ielligence tools and training guidelines are launched while the New York Times is still involved in lawsuit with Openai and Microsoft, claiming that ChatGpt is trained without permission from the Times. Many other publications also derived from spelling and grammar correction tools to completely produce articles io differe sizes of artificial ielligence.
