They've also started heavily encouraging their reporters to use generative AI, so maybe that line was written by GPT.
> In service of more stories, and faster stories, Newsweek’s AI policy addendum gives staffers the greenlight to use generative AI in “writing, research, editing, and other core journalism functions,” as long as journalists are involved in each step of the process. The original version of Newsweek’s policy stated that using AI for “core journalism functions” required touch points with “three or more journalists” during production. A review of the page on the Wayback Machine shows that line was removed sometime after March 2.
Or maybe it's one of those instances where they SHOULD'VE used GPT but didn't? Explaining things in plain English is one of those things that LLMs are actually really good at, and they have a much broader and deeper science background knowledge than your typical journalist does.
Written journalism is a dying, very low paid job unless you're working at a huge paper (Newsweek isn't). I wouldn't be surprised if GPT could produce better writing (not reporting, but writing), like if you fed it bullet points of reporting and asked it to make a readable article.
They've also started heavily encouraging their reporters to use generative AI, so maybe that line was written by GPT.
> In service of more stories, and faster stories, Newsweek’s AI policy addendum gives staffers the greenlight to use generative AI in “writing, research, editing, and other core journalism functions,” as long as journalists are involved in each step of the process. The original version of Newsweek’s policy stated that using AI for “core journalism functions” required touch points with “three or more journalists” during production. A review of the page on the Wayback Machine shows that line was removed sometime after March 2.
- https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/inside-newsweek-ai-experim...