From content adaptation for different audiences to identifying potential new story angles from large streams of information, these 12 newsrooms are developing practical generative AI projects as part of the Open Society Foundation’s AI in Journalism Challenge

Sifting through mountains of articles and documents is time-consuming and often feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. Can we use AI to help journalists get a clear overview of a story, letting them quickly zoom in to the most interesting parts, and freeing up their valuable time to focus on in-depth reporting?

The upcoming 2024 General Elections in India, poised to be the world's largest democratic exercise, will provide a compelling opportunity for data journalists to leverage the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). As part of the JournalismAI Fellowship 2023, our project, Daisy, aims to revolutionise data journalism using LLMs.

For the 2023 JournalismAI fellowship, teams from The Times and BBC teamed up with a shared aspiration. Our goal was to harness the latest advancements in GenAI to make complex data, like that in the UK Register Members Financial Interest, more accessible and easier to comprehend.

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Biased copy can exist in many forms: It can be problematic or offensive words; narrow framing of a topic; leading language to draw the reader to a conclusion; omission of detail; or using vocabulary designed to provoke the pathos of the author.

There are many aspects to our project — including half of it being developed in Arabic. But at the three-month milestone of our six-month development cycle, and for the purposes of this blog, we’re only going to focus on what happened when we tried to train data with ChatGPT and explore how popular language models currently interpret bias and racism in the English language.

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