Italian newspaper ditches reporters for AI in first for print media


Italy's Il Foglio newspaper plans to print news solely generated by 'artificiale intelligenza' for a whole month. — Photo: Christoph Sator/dpa

ROME: Italian daily newspaper Il Foglio has released what it calls the world's first print newspaper created entirely with the help of "artificiale intelligenza".

As part of a one-month experiment beginning on Tuesday, a four-page AI-produced version of the regular 10-page edition is being included for free with the normal edition at the usual price of €1.80 (RM8.61).

The plan for "Il Foglio Ai" is for the AI systems to not only write the articles but also create headlines, summaries and select the most important quotes.

"We journalists will only ask the questions. In the AI edition, we will read all the answers," the editorial team explained, setting out their goal of bringing AI from the theoretical into the practical.

Founded in 1996, the paper is one of Italy's smaller nationally distributed dailies. Online, various platforms are already experimenting with purely AI-generated content, while newsrooms around the world are already relying on chatbots to varying degrees. – dpa

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