A new report is called “No Turning Back: AI’s Growing Role in News”, but shows that newsrooms use AI cautiously, hoping for modest gains rather than disruptive transformation. (Felix Simon, Aspen Digital)
Summary
- Newsrooms carefully adopt AI for incremental improvements, not revolutionary change.
- Publishers focus on "distinctive journalism" to mitigate AI's threats to news discovery.
- Copyright disputes over AI training data pit tech companies against news orgs seeking compensation.
