Artificial intelligence
On top of a failing business model, newsrooms must navigate the powerful — and not fully reliable — new capabilities of artificial intelligence and the deployment of large language models.
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You won’t find these on the shelf. Newspapers print an AI-generated reading list with fake books.
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News Media Nation ·The Chicago Sun-Times Published an AI-Generated Summer Reading List Full of Fake Books — And This is Just the Beginning
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News 404 Media ·The trouble with AI art isn’t just lack of originality. It’s something far bigger
News commentary Media | The Guardian ·Zero-click searches: Google’s AI tools are the culmination of its hubris
News commentary Ars Technica - All content ·Foxconn chair predicts AI will end manufacturers' search for cheap labor
News The Register ·New portal calls out AI content with Google’s watermark
News Ars Technica - All content ·Cops pause use of flawed AI cameras secretly monitoring streets for suspects
News Ars Technica - All content ·When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans
News The Register ·Musk’s AI bot Grok blames its Holocaust scepticism on ‘programming error’
News Media | The Guardian ·Elon Musk's X Responds After Grok AI Bot Spends The Day Talking About 'White Genocide'
News Huffpost ·Journalism Zero: How Platforms and Publishers are Navigating AI
News Columbia Journalism Review ·in brief
The web hurt the news business. Will AI hurt it more?
Who owns the future?
Some 30 years after the arrival of the first modern web browser — an initial, small crack in the economic foundation of the news business — the widespread availability of artificial intelligence services make urgent the question once again. The press of a different future, the question of ownership, is being felt keenly in any information business: data, news, entertainment, art. AI will create wealth, people are betting, but how will that wealth be distributed?
July 9, 2025
resources
The Journalist’s Resource: AI in the newsroom: What researchers learned from the AP and the BBC
Congressional Research Service: Generative artificial intelligence and copyright law
Congressional Research Service: The macroeconomic effects of artificial intelligence
Congressional Research Service: Section 230 immunity and generative artificial intelligence
Congressional Research Service: Generative artificial intelligence and data privacy: a primer
Congressional Research Service: How generative artificial intelligence is changing work