This week, I received an email from a news consortium with the subject line, “Does your newsroom have an AI policy?” I do not, and I realized we, collectively, are at a stage where every newsroom needs to have one.
AI is a part of our lives, whether we like it or not. When it relates to reporting, people have a right to know how it is used. I want to share what goes on…
I agree that AI has a place in the newsroom, but it is a long way from being a human “replacement”. I use closed captioning on my TV now that I am closing in on 80 years old as I don’t want to turn the volume way up in order to hear it. Sometimes the closed captioning is more entertaining than the program. AI can only attempt to repeat what it hears, but that is often full of errors. Its like the text you get from someone who never reads the text before they send it.
Chrystal Perrow, Winthrop