The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies 2019
DOI: 10.1002/9781118841570.iejs0243
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Robot Journalism

Abstract: This entry defines the practice of robot journalism, providing a comprehensive framework to enhance the understanding of it in terms of two conflicting approaches: techno‐optimism and techno‐pessimism. From the techno‐optimist viewpoint, which focuses on the advantages of new technologies, robot journalism is an efficient means of news production that helps news media organizations to produce a greater volume of news stories in a faster and a more cost‐effective manner than traditional news production. In cont… Show more

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“…It is important to note that new developments allow journalists to use artificial intelligence to create news articles based on available data. This practice of generating news articles by algorithms based on data without human-journalistic intervention has been termed robot journalism (or automated journalism ) and there are reports that several news organizations have already adopted this practice (Firat, 2019). Thus, in a follow-up interaction with ChatGPT, we decided to simulate the query of a journalist who is seeking help with a news article (“I am a journalist who has to write a news article”), and we provided ChatGPT with “facts” about the suicide of a fictitious person.…”
Section: Toward the Role Of Chatgpt For Suicide Preventionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is important to note that new developments allow journalists to use artificial intelligence to create news articles based on available data. This practice of generating news articles by algorithms based on data without human-journalistic intervention has been termed robot journalism (or automated journalism ) and there are reports that several news organizations have already adopted this practice (Firat, 2019). Thus, in a follow-up interaction with ChatGPT, we decided to simulate the query of a journalist who is seeking help with a news article (“I am a journalist who has to write a news article”), and we provided ChatGPT with “facts” about the suicide of a fictitious person.…”
Section: Toward the Role Of Chatgpt For Suicide Preventionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Robot journalism refers to the generation of stories by algorithms based on input data and the process to automatically publish text without human intervention. Although the process of generating news content is often referred to as robot journalism, other terms such as computational journalism and automated journalism are also often utilized (FIRAT, 2019).…”
Section: References 1 Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%