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How Much Gen AI Are We Ready To Let Into The Newsroom Today?

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Imagine an understaffed and overworked local newsroom has no one available to cover a town board meeting. A TV news producer proposes to place a camera in the meeting room, record the meeting and then have generative AI transcribe highlights, surface what it judges to be the most important and newsworthy elements in the meeting and then pull them together into a first draft of a story. An editor then puts eyes on this draft, makes a few changes and hits publish.

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