| > How does AI attend meetings, ask questions of local officials or bodies, provide in-person reports and original fact based copy? Is that a thing with local journalism now? Actual journalists still doing stuff like that? Lets not pretend that a lot of good writing or journalism is involved with local news papers. It's not a particularly hard job for an LLM to do better. In any case to answer your questions: - yes you can let an AI listen in on meetings and conversations and they'll do a decent enough job of transcribing what was said and summarizing key points. - you can also use them to prepare for interviews, get some background information on people, companies, etc. and prepare some questions. Perplexity is great for background research like that. - and if you provide all of that as context, it will do a half decent job of writing an article. You might want to do some prompt engineering to tune style and content and maybe fact check a thing or two. For best results, maybe use one model to generate and another to fact check. You are probably already reading a lot of stuff that is AI generated; or at least AI assisted without realizing it. It's not always that obvious. The future is last year. Already happened. What you are seeing is the more obvious/lazy stuff. Which is of course a thing because good enough is good enough and the benchmark for that is very low with most media corporations. And being factual isn't necessary something they value either. |