Our AI Narration Plugin is yours to use: If you’re running a newsroom on WordPress, you can now spin up AI-generated audio versions of your articles without having to cobble together some Frankenstein workflow involving three different APIs and a prayer. (Rest of World)
Hi, I'm Ole Reissmann, a journalist who builds things. I'm the first Director of AI at SPIEGEL. Before that: podcasts, news product development, platform strategy. I write about AI and journalism and send a newsletter you might enjoy.
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What if we let ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini cosplay as famous authors? Would anyone notice? Would critics swoon? Would readers care? Spoiler alert: finetuning works really good, a new study finds. (Rosalia Anna D’Agostino, LinkedIn)
“I Don’t Trust AI an Inch When It Comes to Facts”: Matthias Fiedler asked me 22 questions for his newsletter StoryCodes
Matthias Fiedler is a colleague of mine at SPIEGEL – he covers sports from Munich. In his newsletter StoryCodes, he gives journalists tips on AI, and occasionally he interviews a guest. And this time I got to be the one! Since his newsletter is published in German, here's my English translation: GPT-5. When the mechanics...
“Should news publishers build for ChatGPT’s 800M users? Dug into OpenAI’s new Apps SDK documentation and the implications are fascinating.” (Florent Daudens, LinkedIn)
Generative AI and news report 2025: “We document rapid growth in the use of a new set of tools bound to impact the discovery of information, how people use it, and, by extension over time, changing competition for both attention, advertising, and the money people are willing to spend on media and content.” (Felix Simon, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Reuters Institute)
“Neural Viz counts as a historic accomplishment: It is among the first pieces of AI filmmaking that truly does not suck.” (Christopher Beam, Wired) They could have chosen Zack London’s Gossip Goblin, but wdik.
“Just an endless dribble of computer generated nonsens”: YouTuber millionaire Casey Neistat on OpenAI’s TikTok competitor Sora.
Can AI solve the world’s problems, like clean drinking water? “A superintelligent machine may be able to understand these problems, but it will have no way of overcoming them,” writes Francis Fukuyama. “There are water mafias that buy water where it is cheap, and resell it at extortionate prices. They are armed and ready to use violence if you get in their way.”
OpenAI has released Pulse, a new ChatGPT feature that shows personalized cards based on previous interactions to boost discovery and engagement. Conor Grennan got early access and shared a screen recording.
Ever heard of “Chatbait”? That’s how chatbots keep you talking for maximum engagement. (Lila Shroff, The Atlantic)
On Cloudflare’s very surprising ideas about AI and the future of web publishing: “That’s my counterprosal: AI should pay for the stuff it already uses, and people should keep putting up paywalls.” (Paul Ford, Aboard)
