"by far the biggest use of our resources and I think the biggest opportunity right now when it comes to AI in media,"
"[The election interference group] wasn't so dumb as to say, 'We're going to spread misinformation on the internet'... then you could Control F"
"Where AI becomes useful - typically it's referred to as semantic search, or sometimes vibes-based searching - where you're looking for topics, concepts, things that are similar. And that's hugely useful when looking thro"
The New York Times created an editorial AI initiatives role in December 2023 and assembled a team to apply AI across reporting workflows. The team of eight, including four engineers, a product designer and two editors, focuses on research and investigations as the primary use case. Workflows start by helping a reporter apply AI to one project and then converting that work into repeatable tools and processes for others. The team built tools such as a 'Cheat Sheet' and used AI to transcribe 500 hours of leaked Zoom recordings into roughly five million words, then applied semantic search to surface relevant passages.
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