Microsoft is collaborating with media site Semafor on a new project that uses ChatGPT to help generate news. The Financial Times reported. This is one of several journalistic collaborations that Microsoft will announce today, and a New York Times claim filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the software giant and its partner OpenAI.
Semaphore, founded by former Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith, will create a feed called.AlarmsAn undisclosed but ‘significant’ amount will be sponsored by Microsoft, the report says. It will highlight the latest news and analysis, offering multiple posts per day. All stories will be written entirely by journalists, with AI effectively acting as a research tool.
Semaphore writes that signals respond to profound and ongoing changes in the digital media landscape and the post-social news moments, risks and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence.
Specifically, the Semaphore team will use artificial intelligence tools to quickly find news stories in multiple languages from other news sources around the world, in addition to providing translation tools. Therefore, an article may include Chinese, Indian, or other sources, with reporters adding context and summarizing different points of view. “Journalists need to master these tools to survive and thrive for another generation,” said Noreen Gillespie, a former AP journalist now at Microsoft. The Financial Times.
The use of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots is controversial in newsrooms, with sites like CNET recently using them. to create full-length articles (albeit with the help of human editors). This is despite the fact that artificial intelligence can “hallucinations” (creating unauthentic content) and displaying other types strange behavior. Newsrooms are trying to figure out how to use them to improve reporting and potentially compete with chatbots churning out masses of SEO-friendly content.
Late last year, The New York Times announced said it is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for using published news articles to train its chatbots without compensation. The lawsuit, which seeks potentially billions in statutory and actual damages, is the first time a major news organization has sued ChatGPT’s developers for copyright infringement.
Microsoft too announced today, Craig collaborates with the Newmark School of Journalism, the GroundTruth Project, the Online News Association, and other journalistic organizations.
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