AP launched AP Intelligence this week: www.ap.org/intelligence/ Is this proof of the start of the machine-readable internet? Will news organizations pivot from writing articles to collecting facts and organising that as structured data?

I was asked by someone teaching an MBA class in AI agents what I thought was going to happen to the news industry. Here’s one possible ending: there could be problematic AI generated content and, at the same time, an artisan news industry for premium payers - and a massive gap between the two.

AI slop stops play www.404media.co/arxiv-change...

Workarounds are fascinating. I met someone at a conference who started a Teams meeting with herself and recorded it so that she could get a transcript of the conference talk.

@maxroser.bsky.social Hi Max, I'm a reporter for generative-ai-newsroom.com. I'd love to speak to you for a story I am writing today.

If a chatbot outputs an answer to my question which is more than 200 words long then I have the same issue I had with articles - I have to filter through those words to find the part which answers my question without telling me stuff I already know or telling me stuff which I don’t understand.

The Observer has signed a commercial partnership deal with AI-powered news platform Particle News as it ramps up its digital presence as a standalone brand pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-obs...

Someone told me at a party that she used chatGPT to give a valuation for her antiques that she needed to offload. She then went to an antique dealer with these numbers in mind. The antique dealer had other numbers in mind. She didn’t sell them. Presumably she is now paying for storage.

This is how the lead for the BBC’s responsible AI team has summed up the findings: www.linkedin.com/posts/radioj...

UPDATE: The BBC, through EBU, got 21 news organisations to evaluate the accuracy of AI chatbots’ output and found 45% chat bot responses to their questions “had at least one significant issue”. I haven’t found an appendix with all questions asked and all responses. www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

The @theajp.bsky.social has released a Field Guide: AI for Local Reporting www.theajp.org/news-insight...

I think the introduction of AI generated photo realistic images presents a challenge to news organisations - how do they make sure their audience know that their photos are real. This is more than watermarking. I think they need to overhaul their current use of photos.

I am thinking of making my bid list public. My patch is journalism so I request interviews with journalists. I am told no more than I am told yes. Would sharing publicly who I have approached to interview and their response would be of value?

@fdaudens.bsky.social has shared his notebook on designing AI workflows using open-source tools colab.research.google.com/drive/1n75iB...

⚒️“Google AI Tools for Journalists” — Learn how AI can support your work! Our free 4-week course covers Google’s NotebookLM, Gemini, Pinpoint and Analytics, and guides you toward creating research-driven content that engages the audience. Register now: https://f.mtr.cool/tfeldmhgmy

Unser genAI alt text-Generator für Grafiken - mein heuriges Lieblings-KI-Projekt. Jetzt featured in Generative AI in the Newsroom! wir verwenden ihn übrigens nicht nur selbst, er steht demnächst auch in unserem APA-Text-Assistant zur Verfügung... generative-ai-newsroom.com/improving-th...

Others’ predictions that the AI era brings on the end of the article and the beginning of “conversational news” has made me reflect on one of the challenges journalists faced over the last 20 years. I called it “assumed knowledge”. We didn’t know how much people already knew when we told a story.

Lots of people suggest using GenAI as a copy editor and but @econoscribe.bsky.social told @nikitaroy.bsky.social that his experiment to build a GenAI Economist style guide found the results “were just not good enough”. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

PSA: I have to transcribe an audio clip for work and uploaded it onto ChatGPT (I have a pro account). It was 31 seconds long so it said it couldn't transcribe over 30 seconds. So I uploaded it to Google Pinpoint (free account for journalists).

Interesting to hear the reasoning behind one publisher’s strategy for licensing their content at a time when there appear to be a confusing number of options. 1/3 Economist didn’t strike a deal with OpenAI - they see them as a competitor publishing platform. pressgazette.co.uk/news-leaders...

What can we learn from the news industry's missteps with GenAI? Clare Spencer recaps some of the most visible fails in the industry for GAIN: generative-ai-newsroom.com/the-news-ind...

The new version of notification summaries for news apps in iOS 26 solves the problem of introducing errors by being as boring as possible.

There's an opening on the News Apps team at ProPublica! If you're a journalist who knows how to code and build things, apply below 👇👇 grnh.se/k5crh6ph6us

New on the GAIN blog today from @clarespencer.bsky.social . Local journalists are finding value in using GenAI tools to monitor public meetings and find important stories. More here: generative-ai-newsroom.com/how-genai-to...

My latest Bellingcat tool is out! It lets you search what was said in council meetings across the UK and Ireland, and takes you directly to the right part of the video session to verify. Check it out and let me know what you think! 👇 council-search.bellingcat.com

I am writing an article about journalists using generative AI public meeting monitors to help them put together news stories. Because of the pandemic, a lot more governments started putting their meetings online - that's the start of the story. Which made me think about JACKIE WEAVER.

CityAM Life&Style editor @steeveeteevee.bsky.social shares a pitch London chicken shop wars which turns out to be complete lies written under a pseudonym by a Kenyan freelancer who lost work when the SEO copywriting company he worked for replaced him with AI. www.cityam.com/mass-halluci...

NEW in @columjournreview.bsky.social: Why AI models are bad at fact-checking photos www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Models like ChatGPT and Grok don't perform well enough to be relied upon for fact-checking tasks such as trying to figure out whether the images we're seeing are real, or to learn more context about when and where they were taken. According to this investigation: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

BBC announce another Gen AI trial. This one is from the beginning of the football season for four weeks. I am looking forward to them sharing the results of the trial with the license fee payers. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

So here's a thread on my evolving relationship with using generative AI to create illustrations for my articles. Why do I need pictures at all? 1/ To break up the text and make it easier to skim read. (I don't necessarily think this is true - my editor at the BBC used to say it as FACT).

So @jamditis.bsky.social is one of few I really trust when it comes to journalism and AI. Check out his LLM journalism tool advisor llmadvisor.replit.app

Here's the article for those of you who still insist on reading generative-ai-newsroom.com/what-i-learn...

“Sycophancy, in which chatbots agree with and excessively praise users, is a trait they’ve manifested partly because their training involves human beings rating their responses.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

@rignam.bsky.social shares in this podcast his journey to becoming the first AI advisor at CBC. It’s an unchartered career path. He points out that is a massive opportunity in every industry, not just the news industry. He also advises against a 5 year plan. open.spotify.com/episode/6XVY...

@sarahingram.bsky.social I think you may have a factual error in your story.

@olereissmann.de tried to use AI agents to book a train ticket from Hamburg to Copenhagen. It “was like watching someone perform surgery with oven mitts.” olereissmann.com/2025/08/04/i...

My article about where I went wrong has just been published. But we don't read articles nowadays! We put them through a chatbot instead. So I want to give you the artisan chat bot experience. You can book 15 minutes with me to ask me questions. outlook.office.com/bookwithme/u...

My article about where I went wrong has just been published. But we don't read articles nowadays! We put them through a chatbot instead. So I want to give you the artisan chat bot experience. You can book 15 minutes with me to ask me questions. outlook.office.com/bookwithme/u...

The massive flaw in the idea of getting generative AI to help write a suggestion for a headline is that some journalists write the headline before the story.

Reach NUJ group chapel passes motion about use of AI calling for "urgent, strategic talks with the company to determine how AI can be productively but fairly used in newsrooms" www.nuj.org.uk/resource/rea...

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

In January, I uncovered a network of AI-generated newsletters, called Good Daily, that was targeting hundreds of small towns and cities across the U.S. This week, the newsletter company 6AM City announced it had bought Good Daily and brought its founder on board. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/good...

Latest copy of Private Eye. This. THIS

Apple has reportedly re-enabled AI news notification summaries following previous inaccuracies and other issues that frustrated publishers www.macrumors.com/2025/07/22/i...

Restaurant reviews may seem trivial. But these three attempts to use newspaper archives teach us something about what it means to use AI in a news organization. Accuracy really matters. Discoverability really matters. Humans really matter. generative-ai-newsroom.com/the-newspape...

Dow Jones Newswires has launched a French service with AI translations of breaking financial and investment news, following similar services in Korean and Japanese. It says it has done a lot of work on mitigating errors and does "spot checks" on articles www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-pr...

I scraped the schedule for Open Sauce 2025 this morning and built an alternative schedule interface with the option to add everything to your calendar (via ICS)... working entirely on my iPhone, using OpenAI Codex and Claude Artifacts Prompts + transcripts: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/17/...

Restaurant reviews may seem trivial. But these three attempts to use newspaper archives teach us something about what it means to use AI in a news organization. Accuracy really matters. Discoverability really matters. Humans really matter. generative-ai-newsroom.com/the-newspape...

This announcement today made me think about the cautionary tale in Wales - where a newspaper's abandoned URL was taken over by a content mill making slop - as well as keeping an archive of content, someone needs to look after the URLS and handles of defunct news sites.