AI in J-School: How Journalism Classes Are Adapting
Journalism schools are integrating AI into education at the assignment level, while maintaining the development of core skills like interviewing, fact-checking and writing.
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A.I. can be a crutch that hurts our ability to think creatively.
Read full articleJournalism schools are integrating AI into education at the assignment level, while maintaining the development of core skills like interviewing, fact-checking and writing.
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Readers respond to an article by Nesrine Malik on what we lose when we trust machines over humans Nesrine Malik is right to worry about the effect that AI may have on writing (AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment, 1 June). The examples she cites of fabricated quotations and unreliable research should concern anyone who values truth and public trust. However, I suspect the deeper problem is not AI’s bland prose but its relationship to evidence. The writers caught out by false quotations were often not trying to deceive. They believed that they were using AI as a research aid while retaining editorial control. Yet somehow, fiction entered the factual record. The issue was not laziness but misplaced confidence in a system that can produce plausible reconstructions without distinguishing between what was observed, inferred or simply generated. Continue reading...
Readers discuss artificial intelligence and writing in the classroom. Also: President Trump’s latest assault on science; election workers.
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