Can A.I. Win the Pulitzer?

How we can, work WITH A.I., to up our, productivities, to make our works, even higher in quality, and it doesn’t look like, we will be, replaced by, these, intelligent “bots” anytime, soon, so, in the meantime, let’s just, utilize this, high-tech technology, to better our works…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The answer to this question is, YES!  And it’d, happened, this year already.

Last month, the Pulitzer Prize winners were, announced, two of the winners publicly stated, that in the process of reporting, they’d used, A.I., this was the very first time, that the Pulitzer winners had, admitted to using artificial intelligence producing their news stories in over a hundred years’ history of the Pulitzer.

from NiemanLab online…

One was the series on “Gone Missing in Chicago”, the discovering of police’s systematic errors in handling the cases of missing and murders of the African American women.  The report had been followed longitudinally by the not-for-profit organization, City Bureau and Invisible Institute, and they’d used the machine named Judy, to help the reporters sort through thousands of reports of people who’d been reported missing, and found, that police misconducts were, indeed, involved.

Another was the New York Times’ reporting on the Israeli-Arab War, the visual investigation teams made the intelligent model, that can review the satellite images of the tracks of the bombs, which exposed how the Israeli armies had tossed hundreds of bombs in southern Gaza, attacking the civilians in the safe zones, this report had gone the Pulitzer International News Award.

As early as a decade ago, the media in the U.S. already began using A.I. to write the news.  In 2014, the residents of L.A. who were still asleep, were waken by the surface earthquakes.  And, within three minutes of the earthquakes, the L.A. Times had the news report in detail, not only did the report mention the earthquakes that were observed, and also included the reports of what had been observed in the past ten days before.

And, news can be sent out so swiftly, this is all due to the A.I. news programs, that could in the moment of the earthquakes, to collect the data from the scientific research stations, to quickly produce a report.

And now, A.I. had been widely used and applied in the news media.  The development of A.I. brought about the new legal and moral challenges on how the news were reported, how the stories were written, how the machines bring the new angles of the stories.

To the editorials, using A.I. can increase productivity and innovations.  But, there’s also the moral, the unprecise, and damaging public trust, the risks of these programs.  It also, causes the breaches in copyright of the original authors.

Aside from the ethical concerns, based off of the most recent polls of the United Press, there are as high as seventy-percent of journalists who used A.I. to create the contents of their reports, turning over the roles and the operating procedures of the news editing rooms.

This trend is coming fast, the News Committee of Pulitzer Prize started discussing the use of A.I. in writing the stories of the news.  They’d decided to keep an open mind, toward the use of A.I. in journalism.

The Nieman Lab pointed out in March, that of the forty-five finalists, five of the works admitted using A.I. in the first drafts or the research process.  As the U.S. journalists are getting more alerted over the news generated by A.I., the Pulitzer Prize proved, that the nominees of the award, had the highest usage of A.I. in collecting the data for their news stories.

There are, many news media in Taiwan which had introduced A.I. into the editing rooms, including the editing of news, editing of the footages, the self-generated news stories, along with the stream-live of the news in time.

as A.I. becomes more and more human like, should we feel, threatened??? Photo from online

And, is the trend of using A.I. in news reporting good or bad?  It’s still too soon to tell.  Currently there’s the larger agencies’ embracing A.I. with the smaller news agencies struggling to adapt to A.I.  While for the larger technology platforms, it’s a good thing for them, whether it be convenience, or the accumulations of the forces, or to lower the costs, it all gave technology platforms like Google an even bigger, advantage.  The Columbia University Journalism Department’s latest study showed, that there’s the growing worries of the technological platforms’ locking in the news media.

The report also stated, that A.I. expansion into the public concern interest topics, and has a greater force in supervising the opinions, and keeping the government in check.  Although, there’s the hard adjustment period at the onset, but, there’s no need to use that pessimistic interpretation to view A.I.

The trust in the news media is only changing, it’s not vanishing, on the contrary, a lot of the work in the news room will become, new work opportunities, for instance, there would be the need for the researchers to replace the reporters now.  The reporters need to dig deeper into the stories of interests, which is what A.I. can’t accomplish right now, instead of using the search engines to research for the data for their, stories.  The editing for the reporters in the A.I. era, should be filled with curiosity, with no limits on their imagination, caring about the world, and can find the issues, at the same time, knowing how to use A.I. to their advantage, become the masters of artificial intelligence.

For over a year, ChatGPT had caused a huge trend, showing how A.I. had gone from the theoretical into the applications, bringing the unimaginable forces to us.  And, if we want to control how the A.I. programs work, then, maybe, it will, turn the news media workers into, “programmed reporters” then?

So, instead of seeing A.I. as human’s competitions, we can use A.I. to help us, like in the researches, in the number-crunching to get the data for the reports we’re doing, instead of viewing artificial intelligence as threats to our survival (b/c let’s face it, a lot of the companies are, replacing humans with the bots as their, “employees” right now!), but that still doesn’t, mean that we humans need to fear being out of work, because we are still, in control of our, technologies, making THEM work FOR us, instead of, being controlled by them, fearing their, taking the world over.