The distortions and erros "endangers public trust. When people don’t know what to trust, they end up trusting nothing at all, and that can deter democratic participation."

Reuters Foundation recommends 3 steps:

Step #1: Identify your AI tools

Step #2: Map the risks and solutions

Step #3: Integrate AI guidelines into your editorial policies.

Generative AI’s true value emerges when matched to newsroom needs — from community news curation to public meeting transcripts and AI-powered newsletter expansion

The battle over how AI is built — and who gets paid along the way — must be resolved to benefit both art and technology.

Since the site struck licensing deals with Google and OpenAI, its traffic—and its importance to legacy media outlets—has surged.

Debates continue to swirl around when and how to leverage AI tools, which tools best support the workflow, how codes of ethics should apply, and when to be transparent about AI usage.

AI gatekeepers’ discretionary deal-making, which currently largely locks out all but large, premium, English-language titles, will be a key determinant of success as AI adoption and diffusion continues to accelerate. 

While use of AI Chatbots is growing,  only about one-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news often (2%) or sometimes (7%) from AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini.

AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?

A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots

How does a 182-year-old global magazine stay ahead in the age of generative AI? Podcast with Senior Editor for AI Initiatives at The Economist.

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.

Penske Media alleges artificial-intelligence-generated answers steal its content and have reduced traffic and revenue for its sites

As AI advances and the incentives to release products grow, safety research on superintelligence is playing catch-up.

Despite lawsuits and charges of intellectual theft, many publications  attempted to adapt to this change through striking licensing deals with AI firms.

Google has always felt like it would always be there for publishers. Now the one constant in digital publishing is undergoing a transformation that may completely change the landscape.

At a time when many newsrooms fear artificial intelligence, The Baltimore Times is leaning in.

Authors of a recent study looked at generative AI adoption globally and found a pronounced gap in men's and women's usage of AI, both professionally and in everyday life.

By creating a group of virtual experts, each with a unique personality and specialty, I got more feedback than I ever could in real life. AI can assemble a virtual team of experts to provide diverse perspectives on problems, helping users overcome self-doubt.

In Connecticut, where news is often made in municipal meetings, the nonprofit Connecticut Mirror beat reporters can't make it to all 169 different towns,The outlet is exploring whether AI tools can generate leads and get material from those meetings to reporters.

7-minute video from NBC News shows how hyper-realistic AI-generated news videos are flooding social media, making it harder to tell real reports from fakes. Experts warn the technology spreading misinformation before it's verified, raising new concerns about trust in what we see online.

Perplexity says it expects to pay publishers from a $42.5 million revenue pool initially, and to increase that amount over time, The money will be distributed when its AI assistant or search engine uses a news article to fulfill a task or answer a search request.

In this 5-minute video, Dylan Freedman, a New York Times Machine Learning Engineer and Journalist, show how the newspaper is using AI tools to help in investigative reporting research. Freedman appeared in conjunction with the Reuters Institute.

With AI-powered tools now summarising articles directly within search results, users are less inclined to visit the original news sources, threatening both advertising revenue and subscription-based models that publishers rely on for survival.

For many, AI and journalism remain an unholy marriage. Can a machine really atomize the entire journalistic process down into database-friendly chunks and vectors? What gets lost in the process of summarization?

Terms of the multiyear deal, which haven't previously been disclosed, offer a window into how publishers and AI companies are valuing news content in midst of seismic changes in how consumers seek information online. The annual payment amounts to nearly 1% of the Times's 2024 revenue.