Opinion | An Italian newspaper launched a generative AI experiment. It’s not going well

Il Foglio’s fully AI-generated newspaper insert promised bold innovation. Instead, it’s delivering misspellings and misinformation.

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The image reeks of generative artificial intelligence. The warped, watercolor-esque style. Reuters spelled “Redutrs” and El País with an accent over the wrong letter.

It’s currently the main image of the Italian newspaper Il Foglio’s article about AI use in newsrooms — which was written with AI. The image was created with ChatGPT, according to the cutline, as were several others in a new insert in its daily editions called Foglio AI.

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