AI in print journalism

A newspaper in Wyoming printed an article that included AI generated quotes including from the state’s governor.  The quotes were not real. As one tech analysts said, AI is programmed to provide an answer, not that the answer be correct. 

This week the paper ran an editorial which states, “AI was allowed to put words that were never spoken into stories.” Last year, Sports Illustrated was critiqued for “publishing AI-generated online product reviews that were presented as having been written by reporters who didn’t actually exist.”  

AP | Wyoming reporter caught using artificial intelligence to create fake quotes and stories