Brittany Trang4d ago

Oh, so it's hard to gather new information and you can't just replicate what local journalists do with AI? Who knew???

https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2026/nota-news-local-outlets-ai-plagiarism/

#ai #journalism #localjournalism

An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work - Poynter

Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos

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Show threadProf. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️
@brittanytrang It's incredible that they would think an LLM could do this work. Can an LLM call someone to interview them? Can it go outside to meet people and ask them questions?
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Show threadBrittany Trang4d ago

@RachelThornSub The original idea, I believe, was that it would summarize press releases and public meetings, which could conceivably be a value-add.

But I, a journalist with a PhD, often have trouble parsing out what people are ACTUALLY saying in a press release. I would love an AI that could, but doubt its ability.

And AI tends toward summarizing the average of a meeting, rather than the one alarming sentence that indicates a problem brewing beneath the surface, which journos would suss out.