Italian newspaper gives free rein to AI, admires its irony


Italian newspapers Il Foglio lie on a table in Rome, Italy April 18, 2025. REUTERS/Claudia Greco

ROME (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence can write a great book review and is good at irony, but it won't replace quality journalism, said the editor of an Italian newspaper at the forefront of AI experimentation.

In what it said was a world first, Il Foglio put out a four-page daily insert for one month that was written entirely by AI and was sold together with the normal newspaper.

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