USA Today Ushers in Its Artificial Intelligence Epoch, Armed with a Chatty Assistant!
“USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a Chatbot”
“USA Today is taking another step into the digital age. The news organization announced this week that it has brought a chatbot onto its editorial team to sift through hundreds of news articles every day and find the most interesting ones to post on social media.”
Here we go again. A machine added to a well-respected editorial team. Great, just what we all wanted. A chatbot sifting through the barrage of daily articles, ‘deciding’ what’s fascinating enough to make the cut on social media. It’s the human touch replaced by algorithms. Who doesn’t love some machine-precision judgement in their news, right?
But they emphasize it’s not any ordinary chatbot that’s joining USA Today. The powers that decide have bestowed upon us ‘AI Bot’ – so delicately named it almost feels like an infant being christened. This bot is armed with machine learning capabilities, ready to ensure you feel totally overwhelmed by the fascinating news selection it churns out.
Now, imagine waking up to find your well-written, deeply researched article overlooked by a bot for a piece with more ‘catchy’ keywords. We’re talking about Journalism here, which is possibly one of the few remaining places where a human touch counts. Yet, here we are, in the throes of the ‘Gen-AI’ era, where machines decide what’s news-worthy, and quite possibly could have the last say about what we read.
One added bonus – or rather a frustration, depending on how you see it – of USA Today’s dalliance with AI is that it will ‘drum up’ posts for every Social Channel. It looks like you’ll have to face machine-curated stories no matter where you turn. Ah, the pleasures of the all-knowing, omnipresent bots!
Listen carefully as USA Today assures us this AI chatbot is merely a tool for their journalists and not a replacement. How comforting! It’s hard to ignore the elephant in the room, though – the creeping in of AI everywhere, including our newsrooms, and the subtle shift from human-led to machine-guided information-sharing. It’s charming, thrilling, and eerie, all at the same time.
So, buckle up as we head full throttle into this brave new ‘Gen-AI’ era. We might as well pop some popcorn, sip on our coffees, and watch the AI revolution unfold from the front row. It’s a wild, technologically advanced ride. Rest assured, our Tech giants will keep adding new, ‘fascinating’ pit stops. And who knows? The next bot could be selecting your favorite music, food, and maybe, even your soulmate. Why not? It’s a ‘gen-AI-volution,’ after all.