Newspaper runs robot-written op-ed opposing AI in journalism
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch used Microsoft's Bing Chat AI program to write the op-ed
A St. Louis newspaper decided to take on the artificial intelligence debate by allowing a robot to pen an op-ed arguing against the use of AI in journalism.
The article, featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was written entirely by Microsoft's Bing Chat AI program, according to a disclaimer in the article.
The bot was instructed to "write a newspaper editorial arguing that artificial intelligence should not be used in journalism."
The paper then let the AI platform take over from there. And the bot argued that while AI "may have some benefits," it "also poses serious threats to the quality, integrity, and ethics of journalism."
