Newsrooms Are (Not) Using AI Responsibly [Video]

The world of journalism is turning at Mach speed with several partnerships being forged on licensing and AI usage within the newsroom.

Last week, OpenAI partnered with Dotdash Meredith, the publisher of People magazine. The deal allows OpenAI to make use of “trusted content” from the publisher in ChatGPT, particularly to help improve the chatbot.

This is only the latest in a series of similar licensing partnerships that OpenAI has forged over the past year. As of now, OpenAI potentially has access to an entire portfolio of articles from Politico, Business Standard, Financial Times, and Associated Press, to name a few.

Meanwhile, partnerships are being established the other way around, too. Earlier this month, Bloomberg partnered with AppliedXL to make use of their AI agents to generate analyses for their Bloomberg Terminal users.

Similarly, in a survey taken by JournalismAI, around 90% of the newsrooms surveyed stated that they use AI, though mainly to fact-check, proofread …