Taggart :donor: on Nostr: The only acceptable answer to "How is this journalistic institution using generative ...

The only acceptable answer to "How is this journalistic institution using generative models as a reporting tool?" is "Not at all."

Using a tool known to just make stuff up to transcribe, summarize, and code hours of interviews is a dangerous practice. One hallucination that makes it into the final piece, and the entire body of work using this process will be called into question—as well it should be.

I wish the shortcuts for this kind of work were safe, but they simply are not.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/the-new-york-times-shows-how-ai-can-aid-reporters-without-replacing-them/