Given everything we’ve just covered, us journalists would really prefer it if AI chatbots stayed the fuck away from our industry. There are already enough problems and layoffs. Despite this, there has been some amount of banter about whether bots like ChatGPT could ultimately be used by newsrooms to “augment” news-writing operations. Since ChatGPT is good at aggregating information at lightning speed, some have suggested that it could be useful for repackaging content that has already published elsewhere.
