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One should not feel ashamed to declare the usage of AI, just like you are not ashamed to use a calculator.
There were some papers that I still trusted. Then AI hit journalism with a silly stick and utterly wrecked them all.
Mind you, I love AI. I however can admit that AI seems to have wrecked what was left of journalism.
The current title (“Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article”) isn’t correct, it wasn’t the prompt that was printed, but trailing chatbot fluff: > If you want, I can also create an even snappier “front-page style” version with punchy one-line stats and a bold, infographic-ready layout—perfect for maximum reader impact. Do you want me to do that next? The article in question is titled “Auto sal…
The same thing happened to German magazine Spiegel recently, see the correction remark at the end of this article https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/deutsche-bahn-...
Fair play to them for owning up to their mistake, and not just pretending like it didn't happen!
Actually, at some point, it makes sense to be honest about usage of AI and not feeling to hide that. Just like how food products are expected to print about the ingredients. One should not feel ashamed to declare the usage of AI, just like you are not ashamed to use a calculator.
One of the great advantages of AI for non english native speakers is the ability of the tool to speak in better English than the writer. With so many young journalists graduating from school using AI instead of learning the full language, this use would become more frequent. At my work place, non native speakers would send me documents for grammatical corrections. They don’t do that anymore! Hoorah!
The current title (“Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article”) isn’t correct, it wasn’t the prompt that was printed, but trailing chatbot fluff: > If you want, I can also create an even snappier “front-page style” version with punchy one-line stats and a bold, infographic-ready layout—perfect for maximum reader impact. Do you want me to do that next? The article in question is titled “Auto sal…
For years, both the financial and sports news sides of things have generated increasingly templated "articles", this just feels like the latest iteration.
I believe the New York Times weather page is automated, but that started before the current "A.I." hype wave.
And I think the A.P. uses LLMs for some of its sports coverage.