Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism by Francesco Marconi

Author:Francesco Marconi [Marconi, Francesco]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computers, General, Language Arts & Disciplines/Journalism, Language Arts & Disciplines, COM004000, social science, LAN008000, Computers/Intelligence (AI) & Semantics, Media Studies, journalism
ISBN: 9780231549356
Google: 1MqWDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2020-04-07T20:30:45.816152+00:00

WHO SHOULD GET THE BYLINE?

If these templates are written by journalists, but the NLG system is the one assembling the final output, the question arises: Who should get credit—the human or the machine?

This question is far from being resolved. A study on the authorship of automated journalism found major differences in crediting policies across twelve news websites.20

Editors at the Associated Press, an early adopter of natural language generation, believe that the public should be aware of the machine behind the process. At the bottom of every automated news story, the AP discloses that the story was generated automatically. For example, the following note is included in automated earnings reports:

This story was generated by Automated Insights [an NLG software provider] using data from Zacks Investment Research [financial data source].

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