News & Opinion

Google is developing an AI tool to write news stories and has pitched it to the Times, Post and Wall Street Journal. Google said the AI tools would not replace journalists who report and fact-check but rather free up their time by writing headlines and providing news content based on details of current events. (The New York Times, July 19, 2023, by Benjamin Mullin and Nico Grant) Executive at the Times were concerned that the

The D.C U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the law allowing states and victims to fight online sex trafficking. Challenges to the law maintained that part of the law criminalized speech that would provide such services as health and safety information to sex workers, advocating for particular workers and decriminalization. But the court said the act targets conduct rather than speech, illegal activity as it pertains, in the court’s words, “to a person’s intent to aid

The Associated Press signed a deal with the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI to share news content and technology. AP does not now use generative AI in reporting the news but wants to use AI to improve its output. (Axios, July 13, 2023, by Sara Fischer) OpenAI is also committing $5 million in a deal with the American Journalism Project to help local news outlets to experiment in using artificial intelligence technology in reporting. (Axios, July