An intervention on the implications of the use of AI in the news industry.
The AI challenge addresses the ethical implications of the development of artificial intelligence in the news industry. Artificial Intelligence is already making progress through text generation, with the automation of thousands of stories, sift through massive data sets to find trends and outliers, and the creation of bots used to scale individual conversations with the audience. This event explores the pitfalls and possibilities of how AI will transforms the way we report and consume the news.
Having either studied or visited there, we love the very welcoming city of Groningen. We presented our work and made a talk regarding artificial intelligence and its implications for the media industry, especially with the development of deepfakes and image generation. The event took place in the main cultural center of the city.
