How AI 'revolution' is shaking up journalism

For the past decade, media organisations have been increasingly using automation for routine work like searching for patterns in economic data or reporting on company results. — Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE/AFP

PARIS: Journalists had fun last year asking the shiny new AI chatbot ChatGPT to write their columns, most concluding that the bot was not good enough to take their jobs. Yet.

But many commentators believe journalism is on the cusp of a revolution where mastery of algorithms and AI tools that generate content will be a key battleground.