The New York Times news room uses artificial intelligence

The New York Times has apparently confirmed the use of artificial intelligence 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 internal email that product and editing staff will have access to artificial intelligence -related tutorials and introduced a new internal tool called ECHO to summarize articles, hold news sessions and other company activities.

According to reports, new editing guidelines have been sent to employees for the use of ECHO and other artificial intelligence 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 intelligence to prepare news tests, quotation cards and conventional questions, or suggesting questions for an interview with a startup CEO. There are, of course, limitations; The company has told employees that they should not use artificial intelligence to write or major changes in an article, bypass payments, enter third -party publication, or publish images and videos produced by artificial intelligence without obvious label.

It is still unclear how much of the text edited by artificial intelligence 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 months later this commitment to human participation confirmed. The principles of the Times productive artificial intelligence approved on May 1:

“Productive artificial intelligence 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 intelligence 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 intelligence tools apparently approved for use in the New York Times include GitHub Copilot as a programming assistant, Google Vertex AI for product development, Notebooklm, ChatExplorer Times, Non -ChatGPT APIs and some Amazon Artificial Intelligence products They are.

These artificial intelligence 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 into different sizes of artificial intelligence.