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The New York Times According to reports, he has approved artificial intelligence tools that the staff of the writing room can use to edit copies, summarize information, coding and writing. The publication announced in an internal email that product and publisher staff will receive ai training, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.semafor.com/article/02/16/2025/new-york-times-goes-all-in-on-internal-ai-tools”>according Traffic lightand introduced a new internal ai tool called Echo to summarize articles, information sessions and other activities of the company.
According to the reports, the staff received new editorial guidelines that detail the allowed uses for echo and other ai tools, which encourage employees in the drafting room to use them to suggest editions and reviews for their work, and generate summaries, promotional copies For social networks and SEO holders.
Other examples mentioned in a mandatory training video with staff include the use of ai to develop news questionnaires, contribution cards and frequent questions, or suggest what questions the reporters should ask the CEO of a start company during an interview during an interview. However, there are restrictions: the company told editorial personnel that ai should not be used to significantly write or alter an item, avoid payment walls, enter materials with third -party copyrights or publish images or videos generated by the unbeliented explicit.
It is not clear how much edited copy The times will allow in published articles. The departure promised that “Times Journalism will always be informed, written and edited by our expert journalists, “in a memo published last year, and reaffirmed that commitment to human participation a few months later.
“The generative ai can sometimes help with parts of our process, but work must always be administered and responsible for journalists,” he said The times' GENERATIVE PRINCIPLESAdopted in May 2024. “We are always responsible for what we report, however, the report is created. Any use of generative in the writing room must begin with objective information examined by our journalists and, as with everything we produce, must be reviewed by the editors. “
Next to echo, other apparently green tools to use by The times Include github co -drivers as a programming assistant, Google Vertex ai for the development of products, notebook, the NOWChatexplorer, Openai's non -chatgpt API and some of amazon's products.
These ai tools and training guidelines are being implemented as The times remains involved in a legal battle with Openai and Microsoft, claiming that the chatgpt was trained in Times Content without permission. Many other publications have also introduced ai in their writing rooms to different scales, ranging from tools for spelling and grammar to the generation of complete items.
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