A giant newspaper in the UK publishes its first articles using artificial intelligence

This step was taken by Reach, the owner of the British newspapers Daily Mirror and Daily Express.

Sooner or later, artificial intelligence will take over most of the media around the world. I think the crux of the matter is to see how far his “hand” will extend. Will it be able to completely replace human writing?

Today's news takes us to the UK: a giant newspaper has published its first articles using artificial intelligence.

The move was taken by Reach, the owner of British tabloids the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, among others. The news: The articles were published with the help of artificial intelligence software on one of its regional sites, and it is not lost on anyone in the country that this is happening as the media struggles to cut costs amid falling advertising revenue prices.

Naturally, the same news spread like wildfire through REACH-owned newsrooms, to which CEO Jom Mullen responded in The Guardian as follows:

We've produced our first AI content in the last 10 days, but that's editorial-led. It's all been produced by AI, although it's clear that the data was collected by a journalist, and an editor decided whether it was good enough to publish.

There is a lot of ethics around AI and journalistic content. In my opinion, we produce too much content based on real data. Can be assembled in [pieza] Read carefully what I think AI can do. We try to apply it to areas where we already have traffic to allow journalists to focus on the content that editors want to write.

The articles in question were three stories written with the help of machine learning tools on the InYourArea.co.uk website, which produces feeds of nearby events in Blighty. For example, an article titled “Seven things to do in Newport” was a list compiling information about places and activities available in the Welsh city of the same name.

Whatever the case, Mullen's comments have already been questioned among the British Journalists' Union. Especially since Reach announced its plans to eliminate hundreds of jobs last January. According to the National Syndicate of Journalists, 102 editorial positions will be abolished, putting 253 journalists at risk, while 180 vacant positions will be withdrawn.

However, Reach is not the only publisher to release AI-generated articles while reducing its number of journalists. Last week, it emerged that CNET's owner, Red Ventures, was fired and promised to duplicate “typewritten” content. Others like BuzzFeed produced tests with the help of ChatGPT, and also laid off employees.