An Analysis of the Impact of AI from the News Practitioners Perspective: Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract

The release of ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) has led to a new wave of applications of artificial intelligence in journalism. As the research on the functions of ChatGPT continues to be completed, many media companies and organizations have begun to use ChatGPT in their work. There are more studies discussing the impact of AI from the perspective of journalism as a whole, but fewer studies discussing the issue from the perspective of individual journalists. This essay on the impact of AI from a journalism practitioners perspective: opportunities and challenges aims to visualize the specific impact of AI involvement on the work of journalism practitioners from a relatively microscopic perspective. The involvement of AI in the whole process of news production blurs the boundaries between different positions within the news industry, and news practitioners must become all-rounders in order not to be eliminated by the wave and work with AI. In response to the ethical problems of journalism caused by artificial intelligence due to its lack of fact-checking ability, news practitioners need to strengthen their information verification abilities to try to circumvent them.

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