Artificial Intelligence for the creation of journalistic content
A benchmarking of the main tools
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.62701/revsocial.v12.5179Keywords:
Artificial intelligence, Journalism, Computer-assisted journalism, text generation, BenchmarkingAbstract
In media newsrooms, the integration of artificial intelligence is transforming journalism, affecting
both professional routines and journalistic products.
The acceleration that the development of this technology has undergone, especially since the end of
2022, makes it necessary to review these tools to analyze their uses, their possible applications in
the journalistic field, together with their risks.
In this framework, this paper aims to detect which are the main AI tools for text creation and to
investigate if and how they can be adapted to journalistic routines.
Comparatively evaluating 18 tools, the results highlight that most of the available tools are designed
by and for marketing thus they lack journalistic quality. As for those that could be used in
newsrooms, still require human monitoring to guarantee optimal results.
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