Can Robot Journalists Produce Unbiased News In Face Of AI?
Robot journalists are popular, but can they deliver unbiased news in the face of artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence seems to be taking over the internet these days. Artificial intelligence is impacting every industry, including journalism, and robot journalists are becoming popular. AI technology is critical because it allows the software to perform human capacities such as understanding, reasoning, planning, communication and perception more effectively, efficiently and at a lower cost. The last few years have been exciting for artificial intelligence. We used to think of AI as science fiction, but it is now an everyday part of life.
In automated journalism, also known as algorithmic journalism or robot journalism, computer programs create news stories. Due to emerging artificial intelligence technologies, stories are now automatically generated by computers rather than by human reporters, giving robot journalists greater importance. Human-readable data is analyzed, organized and presented by robot journalists. Typically, in robotic journalism, an AI algorithm examines massive amounts of given data, selects from a variety of pre-programmed article formats, organizes key points, and inserts information such as names, places, numbers, rankings, statistics, and so on.
In robot journalism, some data is converted into news stories written in human language using Natural Language Generation (NLG) methods. Robot journalism is often seen as a way to free journalists from routine reporting and give them more time to work on more difficult projects. Robot journalists can provide greater efficiency and cost savings, easing some of the financial pressures many news organizations face. Robot journalists, on the other hand, can pose a threat to the authorship and quality of news, as well as the livelihood of human journalists.
Advantages of robojournalism:
Speed: As source data becomes available, a story can be produced almost instantly due to automation in the journalism industry. Robot journalists are programmed to generate massive amounts of data at a faster rate. According to the press, automation has increased the number of profit reports received from consumers more than tenfold. If regular articles and activities are automated, human journalists can spend more time on difficult tasks such as investigative reporting and in-depth analysis of events.
Cost: Because automated journalism generates more content in less time, it is cheaper. It also saves money on labor for news organizations. When human input is reduced, wages, salaries, paid time off, vacations and employment insurance costs are reduced.
Error-free: It is claimed that robo-journalists are less prone to errors because they do not make errors such as spelling mistakes or math errors. Or, put another way, their accuracy exceeds that of human journalists.
Disadvantages of robojournalism:
Authorship: There is sometimes confusion about who should be credited as the author of an automated article. According to the study’s findings, some participants gave credit to the programmer, while others saw the news organization as the author, emphasizing the collaborative nature of the work. There is no way for a reader to tell whether an article was written by a robot or a human, raising concerns about transparency; however, similar issues arise when human authors assign authorship to each other.
Concerns about the perceived reliability of automated news are comparable to general concerns about the credibility of news. There is now an abundance of algorithmic approaches for identifying machine-written articles in addition to human review. Although some articles still contain human-visible errors, these automatic identifiers can sometimes outperform human-written articles.
One of the biggest concerns about robot journalists is job loss in the journalism industry. When publications rely on artificial intelligence, human journalists can suffer.
Can robot journalists deliver unbiased news in the face of AI?
Artificial intelligence has truly changed the journalism industry. It has done a lot of good, but there is a chance that journalists will produce biased news against AI. But only time will tell.
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