Generative AI in the Newsroom

Generative AI in the Newsroom

Michael Crystal

What’s in OpenAI’s Custom GPT Store for Journalists

A deep dive into what’s on offer to help journalists in OpenAI’s custom GPT store.

9 min readApr 18, 2024

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What’s in OpenAI’s Custom GPT Store for Journalists

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Nick Diakopoulos

Fueling AI’s Future with DreamI/O

A dystopian narrative of where the rampant pursuit of AI may lead…

4 min readApr 14, 2024

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Fueling AI’s Future with DreamI/O

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Mowafak Allaham

Why Should News Organizations (Not) Build an LLM?

… and why alternatives like prompting, retrieval augmented generation, and fine-tuning that may be a better fit for news organizations.

6 min readApr 4, 2024

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Why Should News Organizations (Not) Build an LLM?

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Sachita Nishal

Blueprints for Evaluating AI in Journalism

We present an evaluation framework for generative AI in journalism focused on output quality, interaction quality, and ethics alignment.

6 min readMar 28, 2024

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A print of Relativity, by the artist M. C. Escher. It features swirling staircase in all directions. The staircases intertwine and lead to different doorways, but it is difficult to discern where each staircase begins, where it ends, and how they are linked.

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Matthew Conlen

We Built a News Site Powered by LLMs and Public Data: Here’s What We Learned

Realtime uses LLMs to generate headlines, subheads, and descriptive text for data-driven charts.

8 min readMar 6, 2024

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We Built a News Site Powered by LLMs and Public Data: Here’s What We Learned

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Nick Diakopoulos

Fair Use, Copyright, and the Challenge of Memorization in the NYT vs. OpenAI

Articles in Exhibit J of NYT vs. OpenAI turned up in web searches more often than a random sample of New York Times articles.

5 min readFeb 1, 2024

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Fair Use, Copyright, and the Challenge of Memorization in the NYT vs. OpenAI

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Jaemark Tordecilla

Teaching a Custom GPT to Read Audit Reports and Support Watchdog Journalism

How to set up and use a custom GPT from OpenAI to help with watchdog journalism.

10 min readJan 30, 2024

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Teaching a Custom GPT to Read Audit Reports and Support Watchdog Journalism

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Stanislaw Piasecki

Developing a Checklist for the Procurement of External AI Systems by Media Organizations

Some factors to consider when contracting for AI services.

7 min readDec 14, 2023

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Developing a Checklist for the Procurement of External AI Systems by Media Organizations

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Brandon Roberts

Can LLMs Help Us Understand Data?

Experiments in using local LLMs to answer questions using databases

11 min readDec 4, 2023

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Can LLMs Help Us Understand Data?

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Ernest Kung

Building AI-Powered Projects for Local Newsrooms

Details on the Associated Press’ experiments in developing AI-driven systems to support local newsrooms.

14 min readNov 20, 2023

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Building AI-Powered Projects for Local Newsrooms

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The Generative AI in the Newsroom project is an effort to collaboratively figure out how and when (or when not) to use generative AI in news production.
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Nick Diakopoulos
Northwestern University Professor of Communication. Computational journalism, algorithmic accountability, social computing — http://www.nickdiakopoulos.com/
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