#datajournalism

LIFE WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND AI

Undermining the Public's Trust

AI Imagery such as deepfakes, I firmly believe both undermine the public's trust and also take credibility away from the public's trust. Based on many of the journalistic integrity principles I have learned from throughout my time at Elon. Though tools such as data wrapper and diagram.io will be extremely beneficial for people in newsrooms who are data, enterprise, and investigative centric, I feel, as the Associated Press says that 20% (in my opinion preferably more) should be done by humans.

Best Practices Going Forward for Regulating Artificial Intelligence

With over approximately 2,000 new AI tools and platforms come out on a monthly basis, to me it seems that there is no possible way that 1 individual, government or regulatory organization could possibly be able to keep up with and keep track of what is good or bad from a utilitarianism perspective.

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AI JOURNALISM TOOLBOX 

HOW AP USES AI

80: 80% of process can be automated 

20: 20% requires hand done fact checking 

AI: A Journalists Approach 

Traget repetitive tasks 

AI Tools the bad:

easier to create misinformation and disinformation 

Where is my data going? 

Ai=I Transcription tools and concerns 

Otter 

Terms of Service: allows the company to take and use the data 

Otter, benefits and drawback of transcribing and logging by hand.

(HOW HONEST ARE THESE COMPANIES SUCH AS OTTER WITH THEIR USERS ABOUT PERSONAL AND PRIVATE INFORMATION

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Generated AI: Biases 

ask to write a love story and it will write a hetero based love story 

Asked Stable diffusion to create a picture of an inmate output: is a 

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Where copyrights stand 

Any works using AI may be copyrighted given that the content, piece includes human 

March 15, 2023: Copyright law decision

Copyright Laws of Concern

Fair Use 

allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism comment, news reporting, etc 

MidJourney V6 has cleaned up “tells” on fake images

Discolosing AI Use to Audience 

when of you tell readers that you used Ai to produce something? 

Do you feel readers and audience that you spell checked something? 

Ethics Guidelines from SPJ NPPA, PRSA, TrustingNews.com 

Using the term art director when published to the public in disclosing AI USE 

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Best Practices to Achieve Results and Outputs for Journalistic Settings

How would you like the AI to respond/what you’d want 

Tell the software how to treat me or the data enterer 

Using AI to find databases, with reliable online links? 

assign it a role tell the software to play the role for me

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Databases 

Open.Ai 

diagram (creates visually appealing graph

Hemingway App (cleans up grammar for writing and journalism: software to give you editing scores and to help you write? 

AI and Plagarism detection 

GPTZero

summarize.tech : will sumarize longer-form youtube videos 

video.yo 

open.ai.com

openai.com 

video.ai

Deep dream generator 

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The history of data journalism

  Still, only a few journalists used these techniques until the mid-1980s, when Elliot Jaspin in the U.S. received recognition at The Providence Journal Bulletin for analysing databases for stories, including those on dangerous school bus drivers and a political scandal involving home loans. Jaspin, who had won a Pulitzer Prize for traditional reporting on labour union corruption, also had taken…