Paris, France – A respected media report released Tuesday shows that they are increasingly turning their eyes to generative artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGpt to follow the daily news.
Annual survey from the Reuters Institute for Journalism Research found that “first time,” a considerable number of people are using chatbots to get headlines and updates, director Mitali Mukherjee wrote.
The annual Reuters Institute report, obsessed with the University of Oxford in the UK, is seen as inescapable for those following the changing ways in which the media is.
According to a poll conducted by YouGov from 97,000 institutes in 48 countries, they report using AI to find news.
However, this rate is high among young people, with 12% under 35 and 15% under 25 years of age.
The biggest name chatbot (Openai Chat) is the most widely used, followed by Google's Gemini and Meta's llama.
Respondents highly valued relevant and personalized news from the chatbot.
Using more AI (27%), we summarized articles that were translated (24%) or recommended (21%), but 1 in 5 people asked about the current event.
The distrust remains, with people balancing AI as being less transparent, inaccurate and at risk of less reliable.
Rather than being programmed, today's powerful AI “Large Language Models” (LLMS) are “trained” with a huge amount of data from the web and other sources, including news media such as text articles and video reports.
Once trained, text and images can be generated according to the user's natural language query.
However, they present problems such as “hagatsuki.” This is a term used when AI invents information that fits a pattern of training data but is not true.
Sniffing out revenue opportunities in the market for many years, some news organizations have attacked deals to share content with developers of AI models.
With Agence France-Presse (AFP), the French company's Mistral Model allows mistral models of the same name to access archives of news articles from decades ago.
Other media have launched copyright cases against AI makers for alleged illegal use of content, such as the New York Times against ChatGPT developer Openai.
Away from AI, the Reuters Institute's report pointed to traditional media (TV, radio, newspapers, news sites) that have lost their positions in social networks and video sharing platforms.
Almost half of ages 18-24 report that social media like Tiktok is the main source of news, especially in emerging countries such as India, Brazil, Indonesia and Thailand.
Changes in news consumption habits have hit the bottom of outlets.
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