The New York Times adopts AI tools in the newsroom
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Summary
The New York Times has reportedly approved a number of AI tools for use in the editorial newsroom, including tools for editing copy, generating summaries, coding and writing.
The company released new editorial guidelines, which stipulate that AI-generated images or videos must be properly labelled and that AI should not be allowed to draft or substantially rewrite articles.
The NYT also introduced an internal AI tool called Echo, which is used to generate article summaries and briefings.
Other tools that have been approved for use by the company include GitHub Copilot, Google Vertex AI, NotebookLM, the NYT’s ChatExplorer, and OpenAI’s non-ChatGPT API.
The introduction of the tools comes as the company battles OpenAI and Microsoft over the unauthorized training of content by ChatGPT.