When Reporters Are Robots
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Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed David Dozier who is a leading media authority.
On a recent Price of Business show, Host Kevin Price interviewed Dr. David Dozier. He’s professor emeritus of journalism at San Diego State. They discussed the fear that artificial intelligence (AI) will take away jobs from news reporters. That’s already happened in Cleveland. The Cleveland Plain Dealer now uses reporters to gather information and feed notes and quotes into its new “rewrite desk.” The “rewrite desk” is a generative AI robot. It writes entire news stories from reporters’ notes. According to The Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn, the AI “rewrite desk” is just another reporter’s “tool.” But reporters do no actual newswriting. The AI “rewrite desk” has stirred a backlash among journalists who have called the innovation “beyond dumb,” turning reporters into “AI content farmers.” Many assert that such use of AI will drive down the quality of journalism, replacing the judgments of experienced reporters and editors with algorithms. At The Plain Dealer, an editor and the reporter review copy written by the AI “rewrite desk” to catch errors and glitches. Humans control the input and output of the AI “rewrite desk.” That’s an important caveat for any news organization considering using generative AI to write news without human control. In a recent federal court decision (Thaler vs. Perlmutter), the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled that any content generated entirely by generative AI is not subject to copyright protection. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal of that decision. Thus, if news organizations decide to wholly automate newswriting with generative AI, that news organization will have no copyright protection for the news its robot generates (see www.DavidDozierBooks.com and www.linkedin.com/in/david-dozier-576b684/).
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David Dozier (DavidDozierBooks.com) is the author of the novel, The California Killing Field. He is a professor emeritus in the School of Journalism & Media Studies, San Diego State University. He’s an internationally recognized expert on communication management and public relations.
According to USA Business Radio, “David Dozier is a scholar of public relations and communication management, professor emeritus in the School of Journalism & Media Studies at San Diego State University, and author of The California Killing Field. He says fake news has become a phenomenon, political campaigns use the tactic to influence voters, and that it’s perplexing that a conspiracy-based group such as QAnon has gained national attention.
Kevin Price and David Dozier are doing a multi-part series on this important topic that will be on many different platforms, as well as on radio. Keep an eye out for the series throughout the Price of Business Digital Network and USA Business Radio.
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