I am not a futurist (or working an angle in pursuit of tech money), so my thoughts on A.I. issues are more blunt than fancy: If the first time you saw an authentic video of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore and presumed without checking that it was authentic, you are somebody primed to get duped by the Royal Palace.
When it comes to finding fact, generative AI models are currently far more efficient at making messes than cleaning up, so their first impact on journalists’ jobs is to immediately make them harder.
Maybe all this sounded a little dour when I was invited to a class of journalism students at Cal State Northridge to talk about the ethical implications of A.I. in journalism.
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