Who Writes Better Ledes?
To close out CJR’s weeklong coverage dedicated to AI and journalism, we’re tweaking this week’s Laurels and Darts.
As journalists increasingly rely on AI to write and edit stories, we want to test your ability to discern ChatGPT-written content—in particular, ledes. In each of these cases, we’ve asked the chatbot to write a one-sentence lede about a current event, in the style of a news site that had already published a story on the topic.
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